Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Optical Instruments

Nouns
  • optical instruments
  • lens, meniscus, magnifier, sunglass, magnifying glass, hand lens
  • microscope, megascope, tienoscope. spectacles, specs [Coll.], glasses, barnacles, goggles, eyeglass, pince-nez, monocle, reading glasses, bifocals
  • contact lenses, soft lenses, hard lenses
  • sunglasses, shades [Coll.]. periscopic lens
  • telescope, glass, lorgnette
  • spyglass, opera glass, binocular, binoculars, field glass
  • burning glass, convex lens, concave lens, convexo-concave lens, coated lens, multiple lens, compound lens, lens system, telephoto lens, wide-angle lens, fish-eye lens, zoom lens
  • optical bench. astronomical telescope, reflecting telescope, reflector, refracting telescope, refractor, Newtonian telescope, folded-path telescope, finder telescope, chromatoscope
  • X-ray telescope
  • radiotelescope, phased-array telescope, Very Large Array radiotelescope
  • ultraviolet telescope
  • infrared telescope
  • star spectroscope
  • space telescope. [telescope mounts] altazimuth mount, equatorial mount. refractometer, circular dichroism spectrometer. interferometer. phase-contrast microscope, fluorescence microscope, dissecting microscope
  • electron microscope, transmission electron microscope
  • scanning electron microscope, SEM
  • scanning tunneling electron microscope. [microscope components] objective lens, eyepiece, barrel, platform, focusing knob
  • slide, slide glass, cover glass, counting chamber
  • illuminator, light source, polarizer, [component parts of telescopes] reticle, cross-hairs. light pipe, fiber optics mirror, reflector, speculum
  • looking-glass, pier-glass, cheval-glass, rear-view mirror, hand mirror, one-way mirror, magnifying mirror. [room with distorting mirrors] fun house. prism, diffraction grating
  • beam splitter, half-wave plate
  • magic lantern etc. (show) Appearance
  • stereopticon
  • chromatrope, thaumatrope
  • stereoscope, pseudoscope, polyscope, kaleidoscope. photometer, eriometer, actinometer, lucimeter, radiometer
  • ligth detector, photodiode, photomultiplier, photodiode array, photocell. X-ray diffractometer, goniometer. spectrometer, monochrometer, UV spectrometer, visible spectrometer, Infrared spectrometer, Fourier transform infrared spectrometer, recording spectrometer
  • densitometer, scanning densitometer, two-dimensional densitometer. abdominoscope, gastroscope [Med.], helioscope, polariscope, polemoscope, spectroscope. abdominoscopy
  • gastroscopy [Med.]
  • microscopy, microscopist.