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perspective glass

perspective glass noun: a kind of early telescope.

Noun

perspective glass (plural perspective glasses)

  1. A kind of early telescope.
    • The instrument was at first called Galileo's tube; the double eye-glass; the perspective; the trunk; the cylinder.1896, Thomas Nathaniel Orchard, The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost', London, New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 124
    • He mounted, carrying the only perspective glass the vessel possessed. The captain watched him anxiously as he took a long look.1906, Herbert Strang, In Clive's Command: A Story of the Fight for India, Illustrated, India: Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 115
  2. (historical) An instrument for viewing an enlarged image of engraved prints or maps https://web.archive.org/web/20150424011800/http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/perspective-glass.

Forms of perspective glass

pluralperspective glasses

Questions about perspective glass

What does perspective glass mean?
Perspective glass means a kind of early telescope.
What part of speech is perspective glass?
Perspective glass is a noun.
What is the plural of perspective glass?
The plural of perspective glass is perspective glasses.

Words near perspective glass in the dictionary

  1. perspectivalism
  2. perspectivalization
  3. perspectivation
  4. perspectivations
  5. perspective
  6. perspective glass
  7. perspective glasses
  8. perspectiveless
  9. perspectivelessness
  10. perspectively
  11. perspectives

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