单词 | hodoscope |
释义 | hodoscopen. 1. Microscopy. (See quot. 1915.) ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1915 |
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