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Arrangement
noun · 78% connection
The manner or result of arranging; system of parts disposed in due order; regular and systematic classification; as, arrangement of on…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, lenses, mirrors, enables, object.
Backboard
noun · 78% connection
A thin stuff used for the backs of framed pictures, mirrors, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, lenses, mirrors, enables, object.
Camera lucida
unknown · 78% connection
An instrument which by means of a prism of a peculiar form, or an arrangement of mirrors, causes an apparent image of an external obje…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, lenses, mirrors, enables, object.
Camera obscura
unknown · 78% connection
An apparatus in which the image of an external object or objects is, by means of lenses, thrown upon a sensitized plate or surface pla…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, lenses, mirrors, enables, object.
Catoptrics
noun · 78% connection
That part of optics which explains the properties and phenomena of reflected light, and particularly that which is reflected from mirr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, lenses, mirrors, enables, object.
Constancy
noun · 78% connection
(psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, lenses, mirrors, enables, object.
Cosmorama
noun · 78% connection
An exhibition in which a series of views in various parts of the world is seen reflected by mirrors through a series of lenses, with s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, lenses, mirrors, enables, object.
Dipleidoscope
noun · 78% connection
An instrument for determining the time of apparent noon. It consists of two mirrors and a plane glass disposed in the form of a prism,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, lenses, mirrors, enables, object.
Doublet
adjective · 78% connection
An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, lenses, mirrors, enables, object.
Emblem
noun · 78% connection
A visible sign of an idea; an object, or the figure of an object, symbolizing and suggesting another object, or an idea, by natural ap…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, lenses, mirrors, enables, object.
Eyepiece
noun · 78% connection
The lens, or combination of lenses, at the eye end of a telescope or other optical instrument, through which the image formed by the m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, lenses, mirrors, enables, object.
For
preposition · 78% connection
Indicating that instead of which something else controls in the performing of an action, or that in spite of which anything is done, o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, lenses, mirrors, enables, object.
Glass
verb · 78% connection
A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, lenses, mirrors, enables, object.
Helioscope
noun · 78% connection
A telescope or instrument for viewing the sun without injury to the eyes, as through colored glasses, or with mirrors which reflect bu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, lenses, mirrors, enables, object.
Heterotaxy
noun · 78% connection
Variation in arrangement from that existing in a normal form; heterogenous arrangement or structure, as, in botany, the deviation in p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, lenses, mirrors, enables, object.
Image
noun · 78% connection
The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object sy…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, lenses, mirrors, enables, object.
Interval
noun · 78% connection
A space between things; a void space intervening between any two objects; as, an interval between two houses or hills.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, lenses, mirrors, enables, object.
Larungoscope
noun · 78% connection
An instrument, consisting of an arrangement of two mirrors, for reflecting light upon the larynx, and for examining its image.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, lenses, mirrors, enables, object.
