- meniscus mirror telescope
- <astron> ■ Meniskusspiegelteleskop n
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meniscus mirror telescope
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Maksutov telescope — n. A type of reflecting telescope in which the aberration of the concave mirror is reduced by a meniscus lens. [WordNet 1.5] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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