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Cassegrainian

Cassegrainian adjective: of or relating to Laurent Cassegrain (ca. 1629—1693), Catholic priest remembered as the probable inventor of the Cassegrain reflector, a folded two-mirror reflecting telescope.

Adjective

Cassegrainian (comparative more Cassegrainian, superlative most Cassegrainian)

  1. Of or relating to Laurent Cassegrain (ca. 1629—1693), Catholic priest remembered as the probable inventor of the Cassegrain reflector, a folded two-mirror reflecting telescope.

Forms of Cassegrainian

comparativemore Cassegrainian
superlativemost Cassegrainian

Origin of Cassegrainian

From Cassegrain + -ian.

Questions about Cassegrainian

What does Cassegrainian mean?
Cassegrainian means of or relating to Laurent Cassegrain (ca. 1629—1693), Catholic priest remembered as the probable inventor of the Cassegrain reflector, a folded two-mirror reflecting telescope.
What part of speech is Cassegrainian?
Cassegrainian is an adjective.

Words near Cassegrainian in the dictionary

  1. Cassegrain
  2. Cassegrain reflector
  3. Cassegrain reflectors
  4. Cassegrain telescope
  5. Cassegrain telescopes
  6. Cassegrainian
  7. Cassegrains
  8. casseiver
  9. Cassel
  10. Cassel brown
  11. Cassel browns

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Cassegrainian (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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