iriscope
iriscope noun: a philosophical toy for exhibiting the prismatic tints by means of thin films.
Noun
iriscope (plural iriscopes)
- A philosophical toy for exhibiting the prismatic tints by means of thin films.
- A device used in iridology to photograph the eye and send the image to a computer.
- My overseas savings came in handy because I could buy an iridology hand lens, which I needed for consultations as I could not afford an iriscope costing R40,000 at the time.2012, Thabang Molefi, Dollars to Soweto, page 77
- It's funny, because people sort of—if they know you're an iridologist they say 'What do you see in my eyes?' And of course I'm never drawn into that, because eye-to-eye —just on a one-to-one—you can't really see very much, whereas under the iriscope...2013, Ruth Barcan, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, page 73
Forms of iriscope
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Origin of iriscope
From From iri- + -scope.
Questions about iriscope
- What does iriscope mean?
- Iriscope means a philosophical toy for exhibiting the prismatic tints by means of thin films.
- What part of speech is iriscope?
- Iriscope is a noun.
- What is the plural of iriscope?
- The plural of iriscope is iriscopes.
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