electron microscope

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   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

   Broadermicroscope

   Narrowerfield-emission microscope

   Partselectron gun

Questions about electron microscope

What does electron microscope mean?

electron microscope means "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".

Is electron microscope a common word?

electron 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.