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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   An image such as a photograph that presents the microscopic at a macroscopic scale; an image produced with a microscope.
2. 2
   a graphic reproduction (as a photograph) of the image of an object formed by a microscope. wordnet
3. 3
   A pantograph instrument for executing minute writing or engraving.

Verb

1. 1
   To produce such an image by micrography.

Etymology

From micro- + -graph, perhaps by analogy with microscope and photograph.

Related phrases

cryo-transmission electron micrographelectron micrographoptical micrographscanning electron micrograph

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