Photomicrograph vs Microphotograph - What's the difference?
photomicrograph | microphotograph |
A photograph so reduced in size that it must be viewed through a lens or a microscope.
* 1962 , , UNESCO Bulletin for Libraries , Volume 16,
* 2007 , Michael R. Peres, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography: Digital Imaging, Theory and Applications ,
* 2008 , John Hannavy (editor), Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography , Volume 1,
A photograph taken through a microscope, an enlarged picture of a very small item or area; a photomicrograph.
Microphotograph is a anagram of photomicrograph.
As nouns the difference between photomicrograph and microphotograph
is that photomicrograph is a photograph taken using a microscope while microphotograph is a photograph so reduced in size that it must be viewed through a lens or a microscope.As a verb microphotograph is
to create such a photograph.microphotograph
English
Noun
(en noun)- The advantages of the use of photographic reduction in recording documents are so obvious that it is not surprising that the first microphotograph was made shortly after the invention of photography [1-4].1
- Microphotograph slides, however, required an expensive microscope for viewing, which make them beyond the reach of the average person.
- Dancer's first microphotograph , a daguerrotype of a 20 inches long document reduced to 3mm in length, was printed in 1839.
