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alethoscopes

alethoscopes is the plural of alethoscope.

Meaning of alethoscope

Noun

alethoscope (plural alethoscopes)

  1. (historical) An instrument, invented in the 1860s, for viewing magnified pictures by means of a single lens inside a box. By varying the intensity of the light, the same picture can be shown as "daytime" or "nighttime".

Questions about alethoscopes

What is alethoscopes the plural of?
Alethoscopes is the plural of alethoscope.

Words near alethoscopes in the dictionary

  1. alethophobes
  2. alethophobia
  3. alethophobic
  4. alethopteroid
  5. alethoscope
  6. alethoscopes
  7. aletic
  8. aletophyte
  9. aletophytes
  10. Aletsch
  11. Aletschhorn

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