different between photograph vs microphotograph

English

Etymology

photo- +? -graph.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f??.t?.?????f/, [?f??.t???.??????f]
• (US) IPA^(key): /?fo?.t?.???æf/, [?f??.??.????æf]

Noun

photograph (plural photographs)

1. A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.

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Further reading

• photograph on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

photograph (third-person singular simple present photographs, present participle photographing, simple past and past participle photographed)

1. (transitive) and (intransitive) To take a photograph (of).
   • 1891, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, The Graphic Arts: A Treatise on the Varieties of Drawing

     He makes his pen drawing on white paper, and they are afterwards photographed on wood.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To fix permanently in the memory etc.
   • 1881, Mary Anne Hardy, Through Cities and Prairie Lands

     He is photographed on my mind.

3. (intransitive) To appear in a photograph.

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Anagrams

• phagotroph

English

Etymology

micro- +? photograph

Noun

microphotograph (plural microphotographs)

1. A photograph so reduced in size that it must be viewed through a lens or a microscope.
   • 1962, UNESCO, UNESCO Bulletin for Libraries, Volume 16,

     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

   • 2008, John Hannavy (editor), Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, Volume 1,

     Dancer's first microphotograph, a daguerrotype of a 20 inches long document reduced to 3mm in length, was printed in 1839.

2. A photograph taken through a microscope, an enlarged picture of a very small item or area; a photomicrograph.

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Verb

microphotograph (third-person singular simple present microphotographs, present participle microphotographing, simple past and past participle microphotographed)

1. To create such a photograph

Anagrams

• photomicrograph