Crossword-Solution: HOLOPHOTAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Holophotal | a. | Causing no loss of light; -- applied to reflectors which throw back the rays of light without perceptible loss. |
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| of reflectors, throwing back the rays of light without perceptible loss | 1 answer |
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Sentences with HOLOPHOTAL (4)
New apparatus for lights in new situations was continually being designed with the same unwearied search after perfection, the same nice ingenuity of means; and though the holophotal revolving light perhaps still remains his most elegant contrivance, it is difficult to give it the palm over the much later condensing system, with its thousand possible modifications.
One day there came a note from the editor requiring me to write ten pages—on this revolting text: “Considerations concerning the alleged subterranean holophotal extemporaneousness of the conchyliaceous superimbrication of the Ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed by the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisodactylous aspects.” Ten pages of that.
For _revolving apparatus_, Fresnel’s apparatus, as employed in all lighthouses prior to the introduction of the holophotal arrangement, consisted, as may be seen in the diagram, of annular lenses, _L_, for acting on the central part of the light, while the upper rays were refracted by inclined hanging lenses, _a_, and ultimately reflected into the proper direction by silvered mirrors marked _b_, placed above.
Thomas Stevenson, whose improvements, in truth, have eventuated in almost a new system, now known as the _Holophotal_,[22] and already partially described.