資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Microscope \Mi"cro*scope\, n. [Micro- + -scope.]
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.
{Compound microscope}, an instrument consisting of a
combination of lenses such that the image formed by the
lens or set of lenses nearest the object (called the
objective) is magnified by another lens called the ocular
or eyepiece.
{Oxyhydrogen microscope}, and {Solar microscope}. See under
{Oxyhydrogen}, and {Solar}.
{Simple, or Single}, {microscope}, a single convex lens used
to magnify objects placed in its focus.
Oxyhydrogen \Ox`y*hy"dro*gen\, a. [Oxy
(a) + hydrogen.] (Chem.) Of or pertaining to a mixture of
oxygen and hydrogen; as, oxyhydrogen gas.
{Oxyhydrogen blowpipe}. (Chem.) See {Blowpipe}.
{Oxyhydrogen microscope}, a form of microscope arranged so as
to use the light produced by burning lime or limestone
under a current of oxyhydrogen gas.