cassegrainian telescope

Questions about cassegrainian telescope

What is another word for cassegrainian telescope?

It depends which cassegrainian telescope you mean. In the sense “a reflecting telescope that has a paraboloidal primary mirror and a hyperboloidal secondary mirror; light is brought to a focus through an aperture in the center of the primary mirror”, the synonyms are Gregorian telescope. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of cassegrainian telescope?

WordNet records no antonym for cassegrainian telescope. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for cassegrainian telescope come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of cassegrainian telescope

• Full entry for cassegrainian telescopeAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for cassegrainian telescopeWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.