refracting telescope

1. 1.

   optical telescope that has a large convex lens that produces an image that is viewed through the eyepiece

   Broaderoptical telescope

   Narrowerfield glassGalilean telescope

Questions about refracting telescope

What does refracting telescope mean?

refracting telescope means "optical telescope that has a large convex lens that produces an image that is viewed through the eyepiece".

Is refracting telescope a common word?

refracting 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.