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Record 1 1998-10-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Optical Instruments
CONT

Compared to telescopes designed primarily for astronomy, a terrestrial telescope usually is designed with a shorter focal length for lower magnifications and wider fields of view and it has some type of erecting prism system to deliver a correctly oriented image to the viewer.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments d'optique
DEF

Lunette qui donne une image droite d'un objet éloigné.

OBS

Source MVISI-F : Le nouveau dictionnaire de la vision par Michel Millodot, Médiacom Vision Éditeur, 1997.

Spanish

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