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endoscope

endoscope

6.1
A small camera on a thin tube that technicians use to look inside machines or pipes
  • noun
  • /ˈɛndəˌskoʊp/
  • Specialized
translation icon : endoscopio
  • To inspect the older pipes in the building, we used an endoscope to view the problem areas.

Swear to God, get thee an endoscope and start exploring the mysteries of places you formerly could not get a camera in.

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Examples

  • A funner toy is hard to find than an A borescope, an endoscope, a video scope.

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  • Swear to God, get thee an endoscope and start exploring the mysteries of places you formerly could not get a camera in.

    Adam Savage’s Tested

  • I'm not sure in this case, this attachment point looks to be for the endoscope to connect to.

  • But there was another less superficial difference too, one you'd need an endoscope to see.

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  • The engineer inserted an endoscope into the engine to find the source of the unusual noise.

  • She employed an endoscope to examine the tight spaces between the machinery components.

Synonyms

fiberscope
vsendoscope
  • Specialized
7.8

A long flexible tube with a light and camera that doctors use to look inside the body

is used to inspect machine interiors and confined industrial spaces

How Detailed

televiewer
  • Specialized
9.9
endoscope
  • Specialized
6.1

Surface Forms

endoscope singular
endoscopes plural

Morphology

endoscope = endo + scope

This is the same technical formation, and the specialized industrial inspection sense is not directly recoverable for an average B1 learner.

Etymology

Endoscope comes from Greek parts endo- 'inside' and -scope 'to look', the same -scope in microscope and telescope. So an endoscope is a small camera probe that lets people 'look inside' machines, pipes, or engines to find problems.