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universal instrument

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.06 in modern English

Syllables
uni-ver-sal in-stru-ment
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of altitude and azimuth instrument. The object end of the telescope is placed at right angles to the eye end, with a prism of total reflection at the angle, and the eye end constitutes a portion of the horizontal axis of the instrument, having the eyepiece at the pivot and in the center of the altitude circle, so that the eye has convenient access to both at the same time.

Inflected Forms

universal instruments (plural)

Questions

What does universal instrument mean?
A kind of altitude and azimuth instrument. The object end of the telescope is placed at right angles to the eye end, with a prism of total reflection at the angle, and the eye end constitutes a portion of the horizontal axis of the instrument, having the eyepiece at the pivot and in the center of the altitude circle, so that the eye has convenient access to both at the same time.

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