microtome

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun scientific instrument that cuts thin slices of something for microscopic examination

Could be construed as either micro + -tome (“instrument for cutting”) or micro- + tome.

There’s nothing happened at all!” She didn’t mean, he concluded, to give him any more trouble ever, and he was free to begin a fresh chromatic novel--he had just finished the Blue Lagoon, which he thought very beautiful and tender and absolutely irrelevant to Morningside Park--or work in peace at his microtome without bothering about her in the least. — Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story, H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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