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Synonyms for hand lens


Grammar : Noun



Définition of hand lens

  • As in magnifying glass : noun hand-held lens
Example sentences :
  • Examine, by the aid of a hand lens, the feet and head of the spider.
  • Extract from : « Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study » by Ontario Ministry of Education
  • Remove one of these scales and examine it under a hand lens.
  • Extract from : « Elementary Zoology, Second Edition » by Vernon L. Kellogg
  • Take some home and examine them with a hand lens, then with a microscope.
  • Extract from : « Some Winter Days in Iowa » by Frederick John Lazell
  • Seen through a hand lens, the mature insects look like tiny cicadas.
  • Extract from : « The Pears of New York » by U. P. Hedrick
  • Soften the leaves by soaking in hot water, unroll carefully and examine with a hand lens or low power of the microscope.
  • Extract from : « Detection of the Common Food Adulterants » by Edwin M. Bruce
  • These minute openings occur in the ridges of the skin, and may be easily seen with a hand lens.
  • Extract from : « A Practical Physiology » by Albert F. Blaisdell
  • A hand lens should be used in studying these insects, observations being carried on from May to September.
  • Extract from : « Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study » by Ontario Ministry of Education
  • (b) Remove the cover of the plate, and by means of a hand lens count the colonies appearing in each of the sectors in turn.
  • Extract from : « The Elements of Bacteriological Technique » by John William Henry Eyre
  • This character is not evident without the use of a hand lens.
  • Extract from : « Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. » by George Francis Atkinson
  • They do not show very well in the photograph, but can be made out much more clearly with a hand lens, 12.
  • Extract from : « The Appendages, Anatomy, and Relationships of Trilobites » by Percy Edward Raymond

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