Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Teinoscope"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Teinoscope \Tei"no*scope\, n. [Gr. ? to extend + -scope.]
(Physics)
An instrument formed by combining prisms so as to correct the
chromatic aberration of the light while linear dimensions of
objects seen through the prisms are increased or diminished;
-- called also {prism telescope}. --Sir D. Brewster.
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