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anallactic

anallactic adjective: being or involving a special kind of convex lens for a telescope that reduces the stadia constant to zero.

Adjective

anallactic (not comparable)

  1. Being or involving a special kind of convex lens for a telescope that reduces the stadia constant to zero.

Forms of anallactic

alternative formanallatic

Origin of anallactic

From Ancient Greek ἀναλλακτικός (anallaktikós), from ἀλλάσσω (allássō, “to change”).

Questions about anallactic

What does anallactic mean?
Anallactic means being or involving a special kind of convex lens for a telescope that reduces the stadia constant to zero.
What part of speech is anallactic?
Anallactic is an adjective.

Words near anallactic in the dictionary

  1. anality
  2. analize
  3. analized
  4. analizes
  5. analizing
  6. anallactic
  7. anallagmatic
  8. anallantoic
  9. anallatic
  10. analled
  11. anallergenic

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