meteoroscope

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English

Etymology

From meteor +‎ -o- +‎ -scope.

Noun

meteoroscope (plural meteoroscopes)

  1. (astronomy, obsolete) An astrolabe; a planisphere.
  2. (astronomy, obsolete) An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction of the apparent path of a shooting star.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for meteoroscope”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)