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Definition: Catoptrics |
CatoptricsNoun1. Branch of optics dealing with formation of images by mirrors. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "catoptrics" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1826. (references) |
Etymology: Catoptrics \Ca*top"trics\, noun. [Compare to the French expression catoptrique. See Catropric.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Catoptrics |
| English words defined with "catoptrics": Anacamptics ♦ catoptric, catoptrical ♦ Dioptrics. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "catoptrics"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | катоптрика. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | spejl-optik, reflektionsoptik, katoptrik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | catoptriek. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | valonheijastusoppi, katoptriikka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | catoptrique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Katoptrik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κατοπτρικός, Θεωρία κατόπτρων,κατοπτρική. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | katoptrika. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | catottrica, cataottrica. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atoptricscay catóptricos, catóptrica. (various references) catoptricã. (various references) катоптрика. (various references) katoptika. (various references) cosa catóptrica, catóptrico, catóptrica. (various references) katoptrik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Catoptrics" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ceratopteris. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "catoptrics" (pronounced 'Ca*top"trics'): Catadioptrics. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-i-o-p-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: catoptric, prostatic. | |
-2 letters: acrostic, apricots, citators, coscript, patriots, piscator, protatic, ricottas, spiccato, tipcarts. | |
-3 letters: acrotic, airpost, apricot, aprotic, arctics, astrict, captors, citator, cottars, parotic, patriot, picaros, practic, prosaic, protist, psoatic, ricotta, tactics, tictacs, tictocs, tipcart, tipcats, tricots, tropics. | |
-4 letters: accost, actors, aorist, aortic, arctic, aristo, artist, atopic, attics, capric, capris, captor, cartop, castor, coacts. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-i-o-p-r-s-t-t" | |
+2 letters: catastrophic. | |
+3 letters: ectoparasitic, pantisocratic. | |
+4 letters: contraceptions, contraceptives. | |
+5 letters: pantisocratical. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 74 6F 70 74 72 69 63 73 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- - --- .--. - .-. .. -.-. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110100 01101111 01110000 01110100 01110010 01101001 01100011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a t o p t r i c s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0074 006F 0070 0074 0072 0069 0063 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37678681828684756985 |
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