schmidt camera

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   reflecting telescope that has plate that corrects for aberration so a wide area of sky can be photographed

   SynonymsSchmidt telescope

   Broaderreflecting telescope

Questions about schmidt camera

What does schmidt camera mean?

schmidt camera means "reflecting telescope that has plate that corrects for aberration so a wide area of sky can be photographed".

What is another word for schmidt camera?

Close synonyms include Schmidt 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 schmidt camera a common word?

schmidt camera 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.