Microphotograph
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Microphotograph is a noun meaning A photograph so reduced in size that it must be viewed through a lens or a microscope.
Meaning
A photograph so reduced in size that it must be viewed through a lens or a microscope.
More Meanings
- (sometimes proscribed) A photograph taken through a microscope, an enlarged picture of a very small item or area: a photomicrograph.
- To create such a photograph
Example Sentences
Holonyms: microform; microfilm, microfiche; microdot
Microphotograph slides, however, required an expensive microscope for viewing, which make them beyond the reach of the average person.
[John Benjamin] Dancer's first successful microphotograph, a daguerreotype of a 20 inches long document reduced to 3mm in length, was printed in 1839.
The advantages of the use of photographic reduction in recording documents are so obvious that it is not surprising that the first microphotograph was made shortly after the invention of photography [1-4].¹
Word Forms
- microphotographs
- microphotographing
- microphotographed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include microphoto, photomicrograph, microcopy, micrograph, microphotogram, microimage.
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