reflecting telescope

1. 1.

   optical telescope consisting of a large concave mirror that produces an image that is magnified by the eyepiece

   “Isaac Newton invented the reflecting telescope in 1668”

   Synonymsreflector

   Broaderoptical telescope

   NarrowerCassegrainian telescopecoude telescopeHerschelian telescopeMaksutov telescopeNewtonian telescopeSchmidt telescope

   Partsparabolic mirror

Questions about reflecting telescope

What does reflecting telescope mean?

reflecting telescope means "optical telescope consisting of a large concave mirror that produces an image that is magnified by the eyepiece".

What is another word for reflecting telescope?

Close synonyms include reflector. 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 reflecting telescope a common word?

reflecting 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.