off-axis reflector

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   a reflecting telescope with the mirror slightly tilted to throw the image to the side where it can be viewed

   SynonymsHerschelian telescope

   Broaderreflecting telescope

Questions about off-axis reflector

What does off-axis reflector mean?

off-axis reflector means "a reflecting telescope with the mirror slightly tilted to throw the image to the side where it can be viewed".

What is another word for off-axis reflector?

Close synonyms include Herschelian telescope. 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 off-axis reflector a common word?

off-axis reflector 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.