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    microscope
    mi‧cro‧scope /ˈmaɪkrəskəʊp $ -skoʊp/ noun [countable]
     Date: 1600-1700
     Language: Modern Latin
     Origin: microscopium, from micro- ( ⇨ micro-) + -scopium (from Greek -skopion 'instrument for seeing')

    1. a scientific instrument that makes extremely small things look larger
        under/through a microscope
        Abnormalities in the cells can be seen quite clearly under a microscope.
        Each sample was examined through a microscope.
    2. put something under the microscope to examine a situation very closely and carefully:
        Our prison system is being put under the microscope after an alarming number of suicides.