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say it: MAHY-kruh-skohp
microscope is a noun meaning "magnifier of the image of small objects". It carries one recorded sense.
magnifier of the image of small objects
“the invention of the microscope led to the discovery of the cell”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for microscope come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.