Definition of Microscope

Microscope

An optical instrument, consisting of a lens, or combination of lenses, for making an enlarged image of an object which is too minute to be viewed by the naked eye.

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Microscope Quotations

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
Khalil Gibran

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
Victor Hugo

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Josh Billings

I don't want to be Kato, the trial guy. It's like everything I do is under a microscope.
Kato Kaelin

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
Lord Chesterfield

I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.
Julia Roberts

Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early as 1894.
Albert Claude

If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges... and the low frequencies are long swinging ones are deep bass sounds. When it cut it at half speed, you're getting more of those on the record.
Herb Alpert

I just meant as far as coming to the games on time; it was just like I was under the microscope, every little thing, it was like they were looking for me to come in here with my shoes untied.
Latrell Sprewell

When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you better be ready to make your people proud.
Alexis Arguello

When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.
Joshua Lederberg

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.
Ajay Naidu

If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something? I suspect there's not an adult in the country who would walk away totally unscathed if every aspect of his or her life were investigated the way Stewart's ImClone trading was.
Allan Sloan

I know I'll be under a spotlight, I know I'll be under the microscope.
Lisa Guerrero

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Microscope Translations

microscope in Dutch is microscoop
microscope in French is microscope
microscope in German is Mikroskop
microscope in Italian is microscopio
microscope in Spanish is microscopio
microscope in Swedish is mikroskop

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