Heliometer is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HELIOMETER in dictionary:

NOUN:
• instrument for measuring apparent diameter of the sun
• a refracting telescope with a split objective lens, used for finding the angular distance between two stars.
• An instrument devised originally for measuring the diameter of the sun; now employed for delicate measurements of the distance and relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope.
• an instrument used to measure the angular separation of two stars that are too far apart to be included in the field of view of an ordinary telescope
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a visual telescope that has a divided objective designed for measuring the apparent diameter of the sun but also used for measuring angles between celestial bodies or between points on the moon

Words related to HELIOMETER

heliometers16 heliometric18

Words that contain HELIOMETER

heliometers16 pyrheliometer23 pyrheliometers24

How to use HELIOMETER in a sentence

• The transit instrument, the meridian circle, the mural circle, the heliometer, and the sextant, belong to this class.
• Among these are an anemometer slowly revolving in the light air, maximum and minimum bulbs in the shade, on the ground and beneath it, a most ingenious sun dial, and a heliometer.

Similar words containing HELIOMET without suffix er

heliometry18 heliometers16 heliometric18 heliometries17 heliometrical20 pyrheliometer23 pyrheliometers24 pyrheliometric26 heliometrically25

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