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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instrument that combines a solar telescope and a spectroscope and is used to observe a narrow band of solar radiation.
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- noun An
instrument used forobserving solar radiation .
Etymologies
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spectro- + helioscope
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He later built a spectrohelioscope, one of two in Britain, used for solar observation in the elemental light bands of the spectrum, which directed the sun's light through a succession of mirrors into his observatory in the basement of his house.
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