diascope
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diascope (plural diascopes)
- A projector used for projecting transparencies.
- 1982, International Broadcast Engineer: IBE. - Volumes 181-196[1]:
- The diascope test pattern reference for automatic setup is a transparency (Figure 3), built into all TK47B lenses.
- a slide viewer, a device for looking at small transparent images.
- (medicine) A flat piece of glass or transparent plastic, used to examine lesions in the skin
- 1898, “Cutaneous Tuberculosis by Auto-infection”, in Indiana Medical Journal[4]:
- The diascope (a flat piece of glass) was used to press out the blood and expose the apple-jelly points of marginal growth.
French edit
Etymology edit
First attested in the 20th century. From dia- + -scope.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
diascope m (plural diascopes)
Further reading edit
- “diascope”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.