Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A constellation in the Southern Hemisphere.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A constellation south of Capricorn, introduced by Lacaille in 1752.
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- proper noun astronomy A faint
constellation of thesouthern spring sky, said to resemble amicroscope . It lies south of theconstellation ofCapricornus .
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- noun a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Sagittarius and Capricornus
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin Mīcroscopium, microscope, Microscopium : micro– + -scopium, -scope.]
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Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From later Latin microscopium, a "microscope"
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'Microscopium', the question is settled in physics; but whether in metaphysics, is not quite so clear.
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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