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digiscope

digiscope noun: a digital camera coupled with an optical telescope for the recording of distant images.

Noun

digiscope (plural digiscopes)

  1. A digital camera coupled with an optical telescope for the recording of distant images.
    • The rubber at the eyepiece outer lens is soft and pliable, making it difficult for my digiscopes to firmly grip it and, hence, take pictures.2021 October 17, “Smartphone Imaging Through the Oberwerk 7mm Eyepiece”, in Cloudy Nights, archived from the original on 13 Apr 2024
  2. A photograph taken with such a device.
    • The only known photographic evidence available is a series of extremely poor quality digiscopes I took on the morning of 21 October.2018 June, Ruben Stoll, “First Tennessee record of Brown Booby”, in The Migrant, volume 89, number 2, The Tennessee Ornithological Society, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2023, page 52

Verb

digiscope (third-person singular simple present digiscopes, present participle digiscoping, simple past and past participle digiscoped)

  1. To record distant images by coupling a digital camera with an optical telescope.

Forms of digiscope

Noun
pluraldigiscopes
Verb
third-person singular presentdigiscopes
present participledigiscoping
past participledigiscoped
pastdigiscoped

Origin of digiscope

Blend of digital + telescope.

Questions about digiscope

What does digiscope mean?
Digiscope means a digital camera coupled with an optical telescope for the recording of distant images.
What part of speech is digiscope?
Digiscope can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of digiscope?
The plural of digiscope is digiscopes.

Words near digiscope in the dictionary

  1. digipurpurin
  2. digirati
  3. digirth
  4. digirths
  5. digis
  6. digiscope
  7. digiscoped
  8. digiscopes
  9. digiscoping
  10. digisexual
  11. digisexuality

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