micrograph

An image such as a photograph that presents the microscopic at a macroscopic scale; an image produced with a microscope.

Noun

  1. An image such as a photograph that presents the microscopic at a macroscopic scale; an image produced with a microscope.
  2. A pantograph instrument for executing minute writing or engraving.

Origin

From micro- + -graph, perhaps by analogy with microscope and photograph.

Forms

micrographs

Derived

cryomicrograph cryo-transmission electron micrograph electron micrograph histomicrograph immunomicrograph optical micrograph photomicrograph pictomicrograph scanning electron micrograph stereomicrograph ultramicrograph videomicrograph

Verb

  1. To produce such an image by micrography.

Forms

micrographs micrographing micrographed