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Telescope

An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.

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Collimator 76% connected

A telescope arranged and used to determine errors of collimation, both vertical and horizontal.

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Equatorial 76% connected

Of or pertaining to the equator; as, equatorial climates; also, pertaining to an equatorial instrument.

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Photoheliograph 76% connected

A modified kind of telescope adapted to taking photographs of the sun.

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Concentrate 76% connected

To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of li…

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Condense 76% connected

To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.

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Crush 76% connected

To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mas…

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Digest 76% connected

To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.

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Magnifier 76% connected

One who, or that which, magnifies.

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Mash 76% connected

A mesh.

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Squash 76% connected

An American animal allied to the weasel.

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Squeeze 76% connected

To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orang…

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Squelch 76% connected

To quell; to crush; to silence or put down.

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Aperture 70% connected

The act of opening.

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Finder 70% connected

One who, or that which, finds; specifically (Astron.), a small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for th…

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Prism 70% connected

A solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and parallel plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms.

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Scope 92% connected

That at which one aims; the thing or end to which the mind directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or accomplished; hence, ultimate de…

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