ELECTRON MICROSCOPE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A microscope that is similar in purpose to a light microscope but achieves much greater resolving power by using a parallel beam of electrons to illuminate the object instead of a beam of light

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Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("electron microscope" is a kind of...):

microscope (magnifier of the image of small objects)

Meronyms (parts of "electron microscope"):

electron gun (the electrode that is the source of electrons in a cathode-ray tube or electron microscope; consists of a cathode that emits a stream of electrons and the electrostatic or electromagnetic apparatus that focuses it)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "electron microscope"):

field-emission microscope (electron microscope used to observe the surface structure of a solid)

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