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HELIOSTAT
Etymology
Noun
heliostat (plural heliostats)
A device that includes a plane mirror which turns so as to keep reflecting sunlight toward a predetermined target, compensating for the sun's apparent motions in the sky. The target may be a physical object, distant from the heliostat, or a direction in space, and is almost always stationary relative to the heliostat, so the light is reflected in a fixed direction.
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• loathiest, thiolates
Source: Wiktionary
He"li*o*stat, n. Etym: [Helio- + Gr. héliostate.]
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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