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microscope

Pronunciation: /mi.kʁɔs.kɔp/

“microscope” is a French word. Its meaning in English:

noun

  1. microscope

In French

  1. Instrument d'optique qui a la propriété de faire paraître les petits objets plus gros qu’ils ne paraissent à l’œil nu, essentiellement composé d’un objectif et d’un oculaire qui sont renfermés dans un tube.
  2. Ce qui grossit les choses abstraites, intellectuelles ou morales, comme le microscope grossit les petits objets.

Etymology

From micro- + -scope.

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