Crossword-Solution: HELIOSTAT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Heliostat | n. | An instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, by which a sunbeam is made apparently stationary, by being steadily directed to one spot during the whole of its diurnal period; also, a geodetic heliotrope. |
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| Device that generates solar power | 1 answer |
| Sunbeam reflector | 1 answer |
| reflector | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MZEEAC
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eruption
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Sentences with HELIOSTAT (5)
Lately I thought of getting Frank or Horace to go to Cambridge for the use of the heliostat there; but our observations turned out of less importance than I thought, yet if there had been one at Kew we should probably have used it, and might have found out something curious.
Images of the sun are thrown into the observatory by an ingenious instrument run by clockwork, and called a heliostat.
With the telescope, micrometer, heliostat, and spectroscope came desire for more complex instruments, resulting in the invention of the photoheliograph, invoking the aid of photography to make permanent the results of these exciting researches.
Outside of these, the professor had established his heliostat, and then gradually, by the aid of drapery, he narrowed down the entrance of light to a little aperture where a single silver bar entered and pierced the darkness like a spear.
Bradley in 1721 actually observed Mars with a telescope "moved by a machine that made it keep pace with the stars;"[337] and Von Zach relates[338] that he had once followed Sirius for twelve hours with a "heliostat" of Ramsden's construction.
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Appears in: LAT, Three Across.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2004–2018).