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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A distance-measurer consisting of a small telescope with a divided object-glass and a micrometer-screw for moving the half-lenses. At the distant point a rod is placed carrying two targets a known distance apart. The observation consists in making their images coincide by turning the screw and reading the micrometer-head, as in heliometer work.

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