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Catoptric

Definition: Catoptric

Catoptric

Adjective

1. Of or relating to catoptrics; produced by or based on mirrors.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "catoptric" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1826. (references)


Synonym: Catoptric

Synonym: catoptrical (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Catoptric

English words defined with "catoptric": Cata, Catoptric light. (references)
Specialty definitions using "catoptric": dioptric lightPurkinje-Sanson images. (references)

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Expression: Catoptric

Expression using "catoptric": Catoptric light. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Catoptric

Language Translations for "catoptric"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

катоптрически. (various references)

   

Danish

  

reflektorkikkert (catoptric telescope, reflecting telescope, reflector). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

spiegeltelescoop (catoptric telescope, reflecting telescope, reflector). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

peilikaukoputki (catoptric telescope, reflecting telescope, reflector). (various references)

   

French

  

télescope reflecteur (catoptric telescope). (various references)

   

German

  

Spiegelteleskop (catoptric telescope, reflecting telescope, reflector), Spiegelfernrohr (catoptric telescope, reflecting telescope, reflector), Reflektor (catoptric telescope, deer mirror, game reflector, mirror, reflecting telescope, reflector, reflector-mirror, repeller, roadside mirror, specular reflector), katoptrisches Fernrohr (catoptric telescope, reflecting telescope, reflector). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ανακλαστικό τηλεσκόπιο (catoptric telescope, reflecting telescope, reflector). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fényvisszaverõdés-tani. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atoptriccay

   

Portuguese

  

catóptrico. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

катоптрический. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

katoptični. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

reflector (baffler, catoptric telescope, dish, floodlight, mirror, reflecting telescope, reflector, reflector lens, reflector-mirror, reflex reflector, rejector, repeller, searchlight, specular reflector, spotlight), anteojo de reflexión (catoptric telescope, reflecting telescope, reflector), anteojo catóptrico (catoptric telescope, reflecting telescope, reflector). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

katoptrisk. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Catoptric

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-i-o-p-r-t-t"

-1 letter: protatic.

-2 letters: acrotic, apricot, aprotic, citator, parotic, patriot, practic, ricotta, tipcart.

-3 letters: aortic, arctic, atopic, capric, captor, cartop, cottar, picaro, ptotic, tactic, tictac, tictoc, tipcat, tricot, tropic.

-4 letters: actor, aport, atrip, attic, cacti, carpi, circa, coact, coapt, coati, copra, coria, cotta, croci, optic, ottar, patio, picot, ratio, tacit, tapir, taroc, tarot, topic, toric, tract.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-i-o-p-r-t-t"
 

+2 letters: plutocratic.

 

+3 letters: catadioptric, cataphoretic, catastrophic, compatriotic.

 

+4 letters: contraception, contraceptive, ectoparasitic, pantisocratic.

 

+5 letters: contraceptions, contraceptives.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Catoptric


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 74 6F 70 74 72 69 63

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-    -    ---    .--.    -    .-.    ..    -.-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01110100 01101111 01110000 01110100 01110010 01101001 01100011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#116 &#111 &#112 &#116 &#114 &#105 &#99

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0074 006F 0070 0074 0072 0069 0063

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

376786818286847569

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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