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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A grid or pattern placed in the eyepiece of an optical instrument, used to establish scale or position.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as reticule, 2.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A small net.
  • noun rare A reticule. See Reticule, 2.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A grid, network, or crosshatch found in the eyepiece of various optical instruments to aid measurement or alignment
  • noun obsolete A small net

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a network of fine lines, dots, cross hairs, or wires in the focal plane of the eyepiece of an optical instrument

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin rēticulum, diminutive of rēte, net.]

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From Late Latin reticulum, diminutive of Latin rete ("net").

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