binocular microscope
- noun
- /bɪˈnɒkjʊlər maɪˈkroʊskoʊp/
- Specialized
:
microscopio binocular
- To analyze the fine details of the mineral sample, the researcher looked through a binocular microscope.
Examples
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Manual picking of the largest and/or morphologically complex specimens using an "MBS-9" binocular microscope.
Academic text (2018) -
They used a stereoscopic binocular microscope to study the morphology, structural features, and thin sections of the rock.
Blog text (12) -
The scientist used a binocular microscope to closely observe the intricate details of the cell structure.
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In biology class, we examined the tiny organisms in pond water with a binocular microscope for better depth perception.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning follows directly from combining 'binocular' (relating to vision with both eyes) and 'microscope' (a magnifying device): it denotes a microscope used with both eyes. This straightforward adjective+noun composition is cross-linguistically common and therefore readily inferable by a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Binocular microscope comes from its literal parts: binocular means 'using both eyes' and microscope means 'a tool to see very small things'. So a binocular microscope is a device you look through with both eyes to see tiny objects more comfortably.
