microphotograph

Definitions

  • Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
    • microphotograph A microscopically small photograph of a picture, writing, printed page, etc.
    • microphotograph An enlarged representation of a microscopic object, produced by throwing upon a sensitive plate the magnified image of an object formed by a microscope or other suitable combination of lenses.
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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
    • n microphotograph A photograph of any object, made so small as to require a microscope for its examination; “a microscopic photograph of a macroscopic object” (A. C. Mercer).
    • n microphotograph See photomicrograph.
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Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Micro-, + photograph,

Usage

In literature:

Some microphotographs of these objects were made but with indifferent results.
"The First Landing on Wrangel Island" by Irving C. Rosse
The microphotographs are of cross-sections and are enlarged 37-1/2 diameters.
"Wood and Forest" by William Noyes
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In science:

Fig. 2. (a) Schematic and (b) microphotograph of the active ESA based on serial array of 12 bi-SQUIDs with individual flux transformer loops of size 0.2 mm x 0.05 mm , .
Active Electrically Small Antenna Based on Superconducting Quantum Array
Fig. 8(c) shows a scanning electron microphotograph (courtesy IZM, Berlin) of an MCM-D via structure, and Fig. 8(d) shows the photograph of an assembled ATLAS MCMD module [?].
2D Detectors for Particle Physics and for Imaging Applications
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