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单词 teletopometer
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teletopometer
teletopometer n. [after Italian †teletopometro ( L. Cerebotani Il tele-topometro da un sol punto (1884))] Obsolete a surveying instrument for ascertaining the distance between an observer and an object, typically incorporating two telescopes and a graduated scale from which the triangulated distance may be read; cf. telemeter n.1 1.
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1885 Times 12 Sept. 8/3 The Teletopometer.—An ingenious instrument for ascertaining the distances of accessible and inaccessible points from the observer and from each other has been invented by Dr. Luigi Cerebotani, a Professor of the University of Verona.
1905 Daily Chron. 9 Feb. 3/6 To the instrument, known as the teletopometer, a telescope is fixed, in which appear two pictures of the distant object. One picture is stationary, while the other moves and is brought to cover the first. A scale attached..indicates at once the distance of the object.
1910 Lit. Digest 9 Apr. 737/2 A teletopometer, a thing less fearsome than its name, is a sort of telescope.
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