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Altiscope
noun · 78% connection
An arrangement of lenses and mirrors which enables a person to see an object in spite of intervening objects.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, prism, peculiar, arrangement, mirrors.
Altitude
noun · 78% connection
The elevation of a point, or star, or other celestial object, above the horizon, measured by the arc of a vertical circle intercepted…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, prism, peculiar, arrangement, mirrors.
Apparent
adjective · 78% connection
appearing as such but not necessarily so; "for all his apparent wealth, he had no money to pay the rent"; "the committee investigated…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, prism, peculiar, arrangement, mirrors.
Bull
verb · 78% connection
A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, prism, peculiar, arrangement, mirrors.
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: instrument, prism, peculiar, arrangement, mirrors.
Diminish
verb · 78% connection
To become or appear less or smaller; to lessen; as, the apparent size of an object diminishes as we recede from it.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, prism, peculiar, arrangement, mirrors.
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: instrument, prism, peculiar, arrangement, mirrors.
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: instrument, prism, peculiar, arrangement, mirrors.
Fancy
noun · 78% connection
The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying su…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, prism, peculiar, arrangement, mirrors.
Feeling
noun · 78% connection
The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; tha…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, prism, peculiar, arrangement, mirrors.
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: instrument, prism, peculiar, arrangement, mirrors.
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: instrument, prism, peculiar, arrangement, mirrors.
Idea
noun · 78% connection
The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, wheth…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, prism, peculiar, arrangement, mirrors.
Idiom
noun · 78% connection
An expression conforming or appropriate to the peculiar structural form of a language; in extend use, an expression sanctioned by usag…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, prism, peculiar, arrangement, mirrors.
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: instrument, prism, peculiar, arrangement, mirrors.
Irradiation
noun · 78% connection
The apparent enlargement of a bright object seen upon a dark ground, due to the fact that the portions of the retina around the image…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, prism, peculiar, arrangement, mirrors.
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: instrument, prism, peculiar, arrangement, mirrors.
Loom
verb · 78% connection
To appear above the surface either of sea or land, or to appear enlarged, or distorted and indistinct, as a distant object, a ship at…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, prism, peculiar, arrangement, mirrors.