Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

coronagraph

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.46 in modern English

Syllables: coro-n-a-graph
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A telescope that has an attachment which blocks out the direct light from the Sun or other star, allowing examination of the corona and the detection of exoplanets.

Example Sentences

"The crosscalibration between LASCO C2 and the STEREO coronagraphs allows, for the first time, the potential use of multi-spacecraft coronagraph data for tomography and for CME analysis.."

Etymology

Etymology tree English corona Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō) Ancient Greek -γρᾰ́φος (-grắphos)der. English -graph English coronagraph From corona + -graph.

Inflected Forms

coronagraphs (plural)

Derived Forms

coronagraphic

Questions

What does coronagraph mean?: A telescope that has an attachment which blocks out the direct light from the Sun or other star, allowing examination of the corona and the detection of exoplanets.
Where does coronagraph come from?: Etymology tree English corona Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō) Ancient Greek -γρᾰ́φος (-grắphos)der. English -graph English coronagraph From corona + -graph.

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