单词 | scintilloscope |
释义 | scintilloscopen.ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > astronomical instruments > observational instruments > [noun] > stars astrometer1783 astrophanometer?1810 scintillometer1861 astrophotometer1866 siderostat1868 wedge-photometer1883 scintilloscope1890 1890 Ann. Rep. Board of Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1888 194 A careful examination of the meteorological conditions of any proposed site for a large telescope should be made, particularly with reference to the quality of the images of the stars. This can be done with a scintilloscope or more accurately with the scintillometer, for it is this scintillation or superposition of an infinite number of movable images that causes the unsatisfactory seeing so often encountered. 2. Physics. An instrument in which alpha rays are detected by the flashes of light which are emitted when they strike a fluorescent screen. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments for observing > [noun] > light or radiation iriscope1841 spectroscope1861 photoscope1872 melanoscope1876 schistoscope1876 radioscope1896 spinthariscope1903 scintilloscope1904 streak camera1962 the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > radioactivity > alpha radiation > [noun] > method of detecting > instrument used in scintilloscope1904 1904 Nature 29 Sept. 535 The little instrument, which is called the ‘Scintilloscope’, consists of a simple magnifier of adjustable focus, as in the spinthariscope, but instead of the fixed screen and particle of radio-active substance a small double plate of glass is used. 1916 Yukon Territory (Canada Dept. Interior) 173 The scintilliscope is a much more convenient instrument. 1991 Pop. Mech. July 32/1 Nuclear detection technology, long a Los Alamos forté, came to the site that spring in the form of a handheld scintilliscope. 2004 D. Belkić Princ. Quantum Scattering Theory i. 26 The distance from the target to the detector (scintilloscope) was only 8 cm. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1890 |
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