Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument or apparatus for exhibiting photographs.
- noun An instrument consisting of a selenium-cell, or an arrangement of some other substance whose electrical resistance varies with the degree of illumination, together with a telephone-receiver placed in the same electrical circuit, by means of which the varying intensities of light may be detected.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physics) Anything employed for the observation of light or luminous effects.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Anything employed for the
observation oflight orluminous effects .
Etymologies
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photo- + -scope
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