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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Same as catopter.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A catopter, or reflecting glass.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. See catopter.

Examples

  • “He supposes the catoptron to have been the same with the astrolabe.”

    Arabian nights. English

  • “Moschopalus," he says, "an ancient grammarian, mentions four instruments with which the astronomers of antiquity were accustomed to observe the stars -- the catoptron, the dioptron, the eisoptron and the enoptron.”

    Arabian nights. English

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  • oroboros A word, when written in uppercase, appears the same when reflected in a mirror: e.g., TOOT. May 22, 2008

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