adaptive optics
noun
A system allowing a telescope to adjust its reflecting surfaces automatically in response to changes in atmospheric distortion.
Origin
1960s.
- stepwell
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- -ster
- steradian
- sterane
- stercoraceous
- stere
- stereo
- stereo-
- stereobate
- stereocamera
- stereochemical
- stereochemically
- stereochemistry
- stereognosis
- stereognostic
- stereogram
- stereograph
- stereographic
- stereographically
- stereographic projection
- stereography
- stereoisomer
- stereoisomeric
- stereoisomerism