coude telescope

1. 1.

   a reflecting telescope so constructed that the light is led to a plate holder or spectrograph

   Synonymscoude system

   Broaderreflecting telescope

Questions about coude telescope

What does coude telescope mean?

coude telescope means "a reflecting telescope so constructed that the light is led to a plate holder or spectrograph".

What is another word for coude telescope?

Close synonyms include coude system. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coude telescope a common word?

coude telescope is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.