Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a lamp or other artificial light.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a lamp.
- adjective a form of the microscope in which the object is illuminated by means of a lamp, and its image is thrown upon a plate of ground glass connected with the instrument, or on a screen independent of it.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a
lamp .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mr. Carpenter's lucernal microscopes are now arranged in a kind of temple, placed in the middle of a room, and illuminated by the light of one powerful Argand lamp, so as to be independent of all natural light; thus, in all seasons, even in cloudy weather, the objects are as brilliantly displayed as they could be last year when the sun shone.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 385, August 15, 1829 Various
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Development of the lucernal projection microscope in the late eighteenth century followed a long progression of solar microscopes.
unknown title 2009
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Unlike solar microscopes, the lucernal microscope depended upon an oil lamp for illumination rather than the sun.
unknown title 2009
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