ELECTRON MICROSCOPE
Dictionary entry overview: What does electron microscope mean?
• ELECTRON MICROSCOPE (noun)
The noun ELECTRON MICROSCOPE has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: ELECTRON MICROSCOPE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ELECTRON MICROSCOPE (noun)
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("electron microscope" is a kind of...):
microscope (magnifier of the image of small objects)
Meronyms (parts of "electron microscope"):
electron gun (the electrode that is the source of electrons in a cathode-ray tube or electron microscope; consists of a cathode that emits a stream of electrons and the electrostatic or electromagnetic apparatus that focuses it)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "electron microscope"):
field-emission microscope (electron microscope used to observe the surface structure of a solid)
