Einstein's statistical discussion of atomic behavior gave experimentalists a way to count atoms with an ordinary microscope.
This makes translucent objects difficult to observe in ordinary light microscopes.
This can be seen by looking at the white blood cells under an ordinary microscope.
Capsules too small to be seen with an ordinary microscope, such as the M protein of Streptococcus pyogenes, are called microcapsules.
The principles governing the behavior of the superlens reveals resolution capabilities that go substantially beyond ordinary microscopes.
The scene is viewed through an ordinary microscope placed at right angles to the direction of the lightbeam.
The addition of two such prisms to the ordinary microscope converted the instrument into a polarizing, or petrographic microscope.
By adjusting the ordinary microscope, the Murder Master had been able to enlarge his vision to include the prison room.
They chose a spot on the Cosm's surface and expanded it with an ordinary microscope, then took snaps only five nanoseconds long.
But it does things no ordinary microscope can do, like making movies.