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Heliometer

HELIOM'ETER

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Noun.
[Gr. the sun, and to measure.] An instrument for measuring with exactness the diameter of the heavenly bodies. It is called also astrometer.

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Heliometer

Heliometer

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German

Noun

Heliometer n (genitive Heliometers, plural Heliometer)

  1. heliometer

Declension

heliometer

heliometer

See also: Heliometer

English

Noun

heliometer (plural heliometers)

  1. An astronomical instrument, based on a telescope, for measuring the diameter of the sun; now used to measure the angular distance between stars and other celestial bodies.

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Slovak

Noun

heliometer m

  1. Heliometer.