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Definition of Microscope

Microscope

  1. 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.

Microscope Quotations

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

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

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

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
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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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