electron microscope

noun

: an electron-optical instrument in which a beam of electrons is used to produce an enlarged image of a minute object

electron microscopist noun

electron microscopy noun

Examples of electron microscope in a Sentence

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But to develop initial protein structures, many are starting to combine deep learning predictions with advanced electron microscope techniques such as cryo-EM, which involves flash-freezing biological samples and bombarding them with electrons. —Quanta Magazine, 26 June 2024

Indeed, even as admissions at the likes of Harvard, Princeton, Yale and the rest have been put under the electron microscope, no one in his or her right mind is proposing reducing admissions at those schools to a single score on a single test. —New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 21 June 2024

Here, a tunneling electron microscope image shows a Josephson junction made with alpha-silicon insulator sandwiched between niobium titanium nitrite superconductors, achieving a critical dimension of 210 nanometers. —Anna Herr, IEEE Spectrum, 15 May 2024

Scientists then used an electron microscope to image more than 5,000 slices of the tissue, each of which was only around 30 nanometers thick. —Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1932, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

electron microscope

noun

: an instrument in which a beam of electrons is used to produce an enlarged image of a very small object

Medical Definition

electron microscope

noun

: an electron-optical instrument in which a beam of electrons is used to produce an enlarged image of a minute object

electron microscopist noun

electron microscopy noun