dialytic telescope

noun

An achromatic telescope in which the coloured dispersion produced by a single object lens of crown glass is corrected by a smaller concave lens, or combination of lenses, of high dispersive power, placed at a distance in the narrower part of the converging cone of rays, usually near the middle of the tube.

Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

noundialytic telescope (plural dialytic telescopes)

plural dialytic telescopes

  1. An achromatic telescope in which the coloured dispersion produced by a single object lens of crown glass is corrected by a smaller concave lens, or combination of lenses, of high dispersive power, placed at a distance in the narrower part of the converging cone of rays, usually near the middle of the tube.
Cite this entry
APA

dialytic telescope. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dialytic%20telescope

MLA

“dialytic telescope.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dialytic%20telescope. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dialytic telescope,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dialytic%20telescope.

Source: dialytic telescope on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.