English Explanatory Dictionary

polemoscope

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. opera glasses or field glasses with an oblique mirror arranged for seeing objects that do not lie directly in front.

Word forms

polemoscope polemoscopes

Etymology

From Greek Monster Polemos (the embodiment of war) + -scope. Compare French polémoscope. By surface analysis, polemo- + scope.

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