dark-field microscope

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   light microscope that uses scattered light to show particles too small to see with ordinary microscopes

   Synonymsultramicroscope

   Broaderlight microscope

Questions about dark-field microscope

What does dark-field microscope mean?

dark-field microscope means "light microscope that uses scattered light to show particles too small to see with ordinary microscopes".

What is another word for dark-field microscope?

Close synonyms include ultramicroscope. 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 microscope a common word?

dark-field microscope 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.