microtome
French, noun\mi.kʁo.tɔm\
microtome is spelled M-I-C-R-O-T-O-M-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 85 million words in written French, the 288,492nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Microtome is a French masculine noun meaning “microtome” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Appareil dont le rôle est de découper en tranches très fines du matériel à étudier avec un microscope”.
What does microtome mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemicrotome
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Appareil dont le rôle est de découper en tranches très fines du matériel à étudier avec un microscope.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of microtome
- microtomes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce microtome?
- \mi.kʁo.tɔm\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is microtome in French?
microtome appears about once in every 85 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).