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A parasitic microörganism. -- Mi`cro*par`a*sit"ic (#), a.

A rock showing under the microscope the structure of a graphic granite (pegmatite). -- Mi`cro*peg`ma*tit"ic, a.

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.

Of or pert. to a microphone; serving to intensify weak sounds.

ce which treats of the means of increasing the intensity of low or weak sounds, or of the microphone.

Serving to augment the intensity of weak sounds; microcoustic.

A microscopically small photograph of a picture, writing, printed page, etc.

The art of making microphotographs.

An unnatural smallness of the eyes, occurring as the result of disease or of imperfect development.

Small-leaved.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, microphytes.

A very minute plant, one of certain unicellular algæ, such as the germs of various infectious diseases are believed to be.

rrounding the ovum, by which nutrition is assisted and the entrance of the spermatozoa permitted.

Pertaining to microscopy, or to the use of the microscope. Huxley.

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. Compound microscope, an instrument consisting of a combination of lenses such that the image formed by the lens or set of lenses nearest the object (called the objective) is magnified by anoth…

Microscopic. [R.] Berkeley.

Of or pertaining to the microscope or to microscopy; made with a microscope; as, microscopic observation.

By the microscope; with minute inspection; in a microscopic manner.

One skilled in, or given to, microscopy.

The use of the microscope; investigation with the microscope.