Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An instrument for compounding colors by combining the light reflected from different colored surfaces.
Wiktionary
- n. A reflecting telescope, part of which is made to rotate eccentrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point; used in studying the scintillation of the stars.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Astron.) A reflecting telescope, part of which is made to rotate eccentrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point; -- used in studying the scintillation of the stars.
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Sophie's alternative theory was that some real camp guy got elected the city's construction-materials regulator, and you just couldn't get anything else past his Garish-Guard chromatoscope.”
“The application of the chromatoscope is almost unlimited, as it can be used with all objectives up to the 1/8.”
“Some time ago Mr. J.D. Hardy devised an instrument, which he has named a chromatoscope, so easily made by any one who has a spot lens that we take the following description from the _Journal_ of the Royal”
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