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441 words match “COPE”

MIRRORSCOPE n.
See Projector, below.
MUTOSCOPE n.
A simple form of moving-picture machine in which the series of views, exhibiting the successive phases of a scene, are printed on paper and mounted around the periphery of a wheel. The rotation of the wheel brings them rapidly into sight, one after another, and the blended effect gives a semblance of motion.…
MYRIOSCOPE n.
A form of kaleidoscope.
NEPHOSCOPE n.
An instrument for observing the clouds and their velocity.
NILOSCOPE n.
A Nilometer.
OPEIDOSCOPE n.
An instrument, consisting of a tube having one end open and the other end covered with a thin flexible membrance to the center of which is attached a small mirror. It is used for exhibiting upon a screen, by means of rays reflected from the mirror, the vibratory motions caused by sounds produced at the open end of the…
OPHTHALMOSCOPE n.
An instrument for viewing the interior of the eye, particularly the retina. Light is thrown into the eye by a mirror (usually concave) and the interior is then examined with or without the aid of a lens. -- Oph*thal`mo*scop"ic, a.
ORTHOSCOPE n.
An instrument designed to show the condition of the superficial portions of the eye.
OSCILLOSCOPE n.
An instrument for showing visually the changes in a varying current; an oscillograph.
OSTEOCOPE n.
Pain in the bones; a violent fixed pain in any part of a bone. -- Os`te*o*cop"ic, a.
OTHEOSCOPE n.
An instrument for exhibiting the repulsive action produced by light or heat in an exhausted vessel; a modification of the radoimeter. W. Crookes.
OTOSCOPE n.
An instrument for examining the condition of the ear.
OTOSCOPEIC a.
Of or pertaining to the otoscope or to otoscopy.
OZONOSCOPE n.
An apparatus employed to indicate the presence, or the amount, of ozone.
PANTASCOPE n.
A pantascopic camera.
PERICOPE n.
A selection or extract from a book; especially (Theol.), a selection from the Bible, appointed to be read in the churches or used as a text for a sermon.
PERIODOSCOPE n.
A table or other means for calculating the periodical functions of women. Dunglison.
PERISCOPE n.
A general or comprehensive view. [R.]
PHAKOSCOPE n.
An instrument for studying the mechanism of accommodation.
PHANTASCOPE n.
An optical instrument or toy, resembling the phenakistoscope, and illustrating the same principle; -- called also phantasmascope.
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