MPage 222
- English Word Microorganism Definition Any microscopic form of life; -- particularly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases.
- English Word Micropantograph Definition A kind of pantograph which produces copies microscopically minute.
- English Word Micropegmatite Definition A rock showing under the microscope the structure of a graphic granite (pegmatite).
- English Word Microphone Definition An instrument for intensifying and making audible very feeble sounds. It produces its effects by the changes of intensity in an electric current, occasioned by the variations in the contact resistance of conducting bodies, especially of imperfect conductors, under the action of acoustic vibrations.
- English Word Microphonics Definition The science which treats of the means of increasing the intensity of low or weak sounds, or of the microphone.
- English Word Microphonous Definition Serving to augment the intensity of weak sounds; microcoustic.
- English Word Microphotograph Definition A microscopically small photograph of a picture, writing, printed page, etc.
- English Word Microphotograph Definition An enlarged representation of a microscopic object, produced by throwing upon a sensitive plate the magnified image of an object formed by a microscope or other suitable combination of lenses.
- English Word Microphotography Definition The art of making microphotographs.
- English Word Microphthalmia Definition Alt. of Microphthalmy
- English Word Microphthalmy Definition An unnatural smallness of the eyes, occurring as the result of disease or of imperfect development.
- English Word Microphyllous Definition Small-leaved.
- English Word Microphytal Definition Pertaining to, or of the nature of, microphytes.
- English Word Microphyte Definition A very minute plant, one of certain unicellular algae, such as the germs of various infectious diseases are believed to be.
- English Word Micropyle Definition An opening in the membranes surrounding the ovum, by which nutrition is assisted and the entrance of the spermatozoa permitted.
- English Word Micropyle Definition An opening in the outer coat of a seed, through which the fecundating pollen enters the ovule.
- English Word Microscopal Definition Pertaining to microscopy, or to the use of the microscope.
- English Word Microscope Definition An optical instrument, consisting of a lens, or combination of lenses, for making an enlarged image of an object which is too minute to be viewed by the naked eye.
- English Word Microscopial Definition Microscopic.
- English Word Microscopic Definition Alt. of Microscopical