refracting telescope

Noun

Meaning

optical telescope that has a large convex lens that produces an image that is viewed through the eyepiece

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

refractor telescope radio telescope reflecting telescope astronomical telescope spyglass glass

Hypernyms

optical telescope

Hyponyms

glass spyglass field glass Galilean telescope

Examples

From this work he concluded that any refracting telescope would suffer from the dispersion of light into colours. Source: Internet

He began observing Venus in detail in mid-1896 soon after the convert Alvan Clark & Sons refracting telescope was installed at his new Flagstaff, Arizona observatory. Source: Internet

In 1666, Isaac Newton argued that the faults of the refracting telescope were fundamental because the lens refracted light of different colors differently. Source: Internet

It also houses the astronomical instruments used to make meridian observations and the 28-inch equatorial Grubb refracting telescope of 1893, the largest of its kind in the UK. Source: Internet

Optics, bk. i. pt. ii. prop. 3 From these experiments Newton concluded that no improvement could be made in the refracting telescope. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

refractile refractility refracting refraction refraction angle refraction coefficient