Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun electron_microscope

1 sense of electron microscope

Sense 1
electron microscope -- (a microscope that is similar in purpose to a light microscope but achieves much greater resolving power by using a parallel beam of electrons to illuminate the object instead of a beam of light)
       => microscope -- (magnifier of the image of small objects; "the invention of the microscope led to the discovery of the cell")