optical instruments

Roget category 445

3. Words relating to matter
› 3.3. Organic matter
›› 3.3.2. Sensation

#445. Optical Instruments

noun

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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