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Definition: CROSS WIRES |
CROSS WIRES1. Fine wires made to traverse the field of view in a telescope, and moved by a screw with a graduated head, used for delicate astronomical observations; spider lines. Fixed cross wires are also used in microscopes, etc. |
Crosswords: CROSS WIRES |
| English words defined with "CROSS WIRES": Line of collimation ♦ telescope sight. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CROSS WIRES": piano wire screen. (references) |
Expression using "CROSS WIRES": parallax of the cross wires. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "CROSS WIRES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Swedish | trådkors (reticle, reticule, reticule cross). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"CROSS WIRES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: crosswires. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-o-r-r-s-s-s-w" | |
-1 letter: crosswise. | |
-2 letters: crosiers, crossers. | |
-3 letters: cirrose, corries, cowries, crosier, crosser, crosses, crowers, escrows, orrices, orrises, recross, scissor, scorers, seisors, worries. | |
-4 letters: corers, corrie, corses, cosier, cosies, cowers, cowier, cowrie, criers, crises, crores, crosse, crower, escrow, orrice, osiers, resows, ricers, risers, rosier, rowers, scorer, scores, screws, scries, seisor, serows, sowers, wirers, wisses, worser, worses. | |
-5 letters: ceros. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-o-r-r-s-s-s-w" | |
+5 letters: crashworthiness. | |
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