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Coelostat

Definition: Coelostat

Coelostat

Noun

1. Optical device used to follow the path of a celestial body and reflect its light into a telescope; has a movable and a fixed mirror.

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


Specialty Definition: Coelostat

DomainDefinition

Geography

Instruments intended to facilitate astronomical observations, particularly by reflecting a given part of the sky into a vertical or horizontal stationary instrument; they consist essenti ally of two plane mirrors, one of which is controlled by a clockwork movement and turns a complete circle in 48 hours. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Modern Translation: Coelostat

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

Danish

  

coelostat. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

coelostaat. (various references)

   

French

  

coelostat. (various references)

   

German

  

Coelostat. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αστροστάτης, ουρανοστάτης. (various references)

   

Italian

  

celostato. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

シールド工法 (scene, sea-lane, shield method). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

シーロスタット . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oelostatcay

   

Portuguese

  

celóstato. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

celostato. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Coelostat

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-o-o-s-t-t"

-1 letter: calottes.

-2 letters: calotte, coolest, costate, lactose, locates, ocelots, talcose, tootles.

-3 letters: castle, cattle, cleats, cloots, closet, costae, costal, cottae, cottas, eclats, latest, lattes, locate, locoes, lottes, lottos, ocelot, octets, osteal, solace, solate, stacte, tectal, tootle, totals.

-4 letters: alecs, aloes, altos, ascot, calos, caste, cates, celts, cesta, clast, cleat, cloot, close, clots, coals, coast, coats.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-o-o-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: osteoclast.

 

+2 letters: osteoclasts.

 

+3 letters: osteoblastic, osteoclastic, osteoplastic, sternocostal.

 

+4 letters: constellation, constellatory, contemplators, olfactometers, oxaloacetates, streptococcal, watercolorist.

 

+5 letters: apostolicities, bacteriologist, constellations, contemplations, dialectologist, emotionalistic, monotheistical, postadolescent, postcollegiate, sclerotization, watercolorists.

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Alternative Orthography: Coelostat


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

43 6F 65 6C 6F 73 74 61 74

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 01101111 01100101 01101100 01101111 01110011 01110100 01100001 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#101 &#108 &#111 &#115 &#116 &#97 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 0065 006C 006F 0073 0074 0061 0074

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

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

378171788185866786

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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