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STOMATOSCOPE n.

An apparatus for examining the interior of the mouth.

One who stoops.

STOPE v. 3 definitions

To excavate in the form of stopes.

STOPE; STOPEN p.

Stepped; gone; advanced. [Obs.] A poor widow, somedeal stope in age. Chaucer.

STROBOSCOPE n. 2 definitions

An optical toy similar to the phenakistoscope. See Phenakistoscope.

SUBOPERCULAR a. 2 definitions

Situated below the operculum; pertaining to the suboperculum. -- n.

SUBOPERCULUM n.

The lower opercular bone in fishes.

SYNCOPE n. 4 definitions

A pause or cessation; suspension. [R.] Revely, and dance, and show, Suffer a syncope and solemn pause. Cowper.

TACHISTOSCOPE n.

An apparatus for exposing briefly to view a screen bearing letters or figures. It is used in studying the range of attention, or the power of distinguishing separate objects in a single impression.

An early form of antimated-picture machine, devised in 1889 by Otto Anschütz of Berlin, in which the chronophotographs were mounted upon the periphery of a rotating wheel.

f objects seen through the prisms are increased or diminished; -- called also prism telescope. Sir D. Brewster.

TELEGRAPHOSCOPE n.

An instrument for telegraphically transmitting a picture and reproducing its image as a positive or negative. The transmitter includes a camera obscura and a row of minute selenium cells. The receiver includes an oscillograph, ralay, equilibrator, and an induction coil the sparks from which perforate a paper with tiny…

TELELECTROSCOPE n.

Any apparatus for making distant objects visible by the aid of electric transmission.

TELENGISCOPE n.

An instrument of such focal length that it may be used as an observing telescope for objects close at hand or as a long-focused microscope.

TELEPOLARISCOPE n.

A polariscope arranged to be attached to a telescope. Lockyer.

TELESCOPE a. 3 definitions

To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another. [Recent]

TELESCOPE BAG n.

An adjustable traveling bag consisting of two cases, the larger slipping over the other.

TELESPECTROSCOPE n.

A spectroscope arranged to be attached to a telescope for observation of distant objects, as the sun or stars. Lockyer.

TELESTEREOSCOPE n.

A stereoscope adapted to view distant natural objects or landscapes; a telescopic stereoscope.

An optical instrument or toy for showing the presistence of an impression upon the eyes after the luminous object is withdrawn.