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单词 hodoscope
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hodoscopen.

/ˈhɒdəʊskəʊp/
Etymology: < Greek ὁδός way + -scope comb. form.
1. Microscopy. (See quot. 1915.)
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > magnification or magnifying instruments > [noun] > microscope > other microscopes
lucernal microscope1743
gas microscope1833
oxyhydrogen microscope1839
binocular1871
orthostereoscope1892
pseudostereoscope1892
ultramicroscope1906
acoustic microscope1910
hodoscope1915
optical microscope1928
light microscope1934
comparison microscope1940
phase microscope1946
stereomicroscope1962
1915 J. W. Evans in Jrnl. Quekett Microsc. Club XII. 613 It is frequently desirable to examine simultaneously the optical properties of a number of different directions in a mineral... For this purpose the microscope is..converted into an optical instrument in which every point in the image corresponds not to a point in the object under examination, but to a direction along which light traverses that object in parallel paths. Such an instrument may be conveniently described as a hodoscope or path viewer, a term which is to be preferred to the word ‘konoscope’ employed by some authors.
2. Physics. An assembly of particle detectors used for observing the paths of cosmic-ray and other particles.
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the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > astronomical instruments > observational instruments > [noun] > rays
hodoscope1950
1950 Physical Rev. 78 715/1 For the purpose of analyzing the shower phenomena in a hodoscope set it would appear desirable to use as large a number of narrow counters as possible.
1967 Nucl. Instruments & Methods LI. 1/1 An experiment on mu meson pair production was performed..utilizing a 192 unit hodoscope. For each hodoscope counter only the detection or non-detection of a particle (and not pulse height) was recorded.
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