dark field illumination

1. 1.

   a form of microscopic examination of living material by scattered light; specimens appear luminous against a dark background

   Synonymsdark ground illumination

   Broadermicroscopy

Questions about dark field illumination

What does dark field illumination mean?

dark field illumination means "a form of microscopic examination of living material by scattered light; specimens appear luminous against a dark background".

What is another word for dark field illumination?

Close synonyms include dark ground illumination. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dark field illumination a common word?

dark field illumination is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.