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barnacle noun
1 barnacle Marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces.
synonyms: cirriped , cirripede .
Dutch: zeepok Polish: wąsonóg, wicionóg
2 barnacle European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north.
synonyms: barnacle goose , Branta leucopsis .
Dutch: brandgans, neusknijper, praam Polish: bernikla białolica
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barnacles noun
Roget 445 :optical instruments ;
lens ,
meniscus ,
magnifier ,
sunglass ,
magnifying glass ,
hand lens ;
microscope ,
megascope † ,
tienoscope † .
spectacles ,
specs [Coll.] ,
glasses ,
barnacles ,
goggles ,
eyeglass ,
pince-nez ,
monocle ,
reading glasses ,
bifocals ;
contact lenses ,
soft lenses ,
hard lenses ;
sunglasses ,
shades [Coll.] .
periscopic lens † ;
telescope ,
glass ,
lorgnette ;
spyglass ,
opera glass ,
binocular ,
binoculars ,
field glass ;
burning glass ,
convex lens ,
concave lens ,
convexo-concave lens † ,
coated lens ,
multiple lens ,
compound lens ,
lens system ,
telephoto lens ,
wide-angle lens ,
fish-eye lens ,
zoom lens ;
optical bench .
astronomical telescope ,
reflecting telescope ,
reflector ,
refracting telescope ,
refractor ,
Newtonian telescope ,
folded-path telescope ,
finder telescope ,
chromatoscope ;
X-ray telescope ;
radiotelescope ,
phased-array telescope ,
Very Large Array radiotelescope ;
ultraviolet telescope ;
infrared telescope ;
star spectroscope ;
space telescope .
[telescope mounts]
altazimuth mount ,
equatorial mount .
refractometer ,
circular dichroism spectrometer .
interferometer .
phase-contrast microscope ,
fluorescence microscope ,
dissecting microscope ;
electron microscope ,
transmission electron microscope ;
scanning electron microscope ,
SEM ;
scanning tunneling electron microscope .
[microscope components]
objective lens ,
eyepiece ,
barrel ,
platform ,
focusing knob ;
slide ,
slide glass ,
cover glass ,
counting chamber ;
illuminator ,
light source ,
polarizer ,
[component parts of telescopes]
reticle ,
cross-hairs .
light pipe ,
fiber optics mirror ,
reflector ,
speculum ;
looking-glass ,
pier-glass ,
cheval-glass ,
rear-view mirror ,
hand mirror ,
one-way mirror ,
magnifying mirror .
[room with distorting mirrors]
fun house .
prism ,
diffraction grating ;
beam splitter ,
half-wave plate ,
quarter-wave plate .
camera lucida [Lat.] ,
camera obscura [Lat.] ;
magic lantern
etc.
(show)
448 stereopticon ;
chromatrope † ,
thaumatrope † ;
stereoscope ,
pseudoscope † ,
polyscope † ,
kaleidoscope .
photometer ,
eriometer † ,
actinometer † ,
lucimeter † ,
radiometer ;
ligth detector ,
photodiode ,
photomultiplier ,
photodiode array ,
photocell .
X-ray diffractometer ,
goniometer .
spectrometer ,
monochrometer ,
UV spectrometer ,
visible spectrometer ,
Infrared spectrometer ,
Fourier transform infrared spectrometer ,
recording spectrometer ;
densitometer ,
scanning densitometer ,
two-dimensional densitometer .
abdominoscope † ,
gastroscope [Med.] ,
helioscope † ,
polariscope † ,
polemoscope † ,
spectroscope .
abdominoscopy † ;
gastroscopy [Med.] ;
microscopy ,
microscopist .
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