| AEROSCOPE | • aeroscope n. A device used to collect dust particles, spores etc from the air for subsequent analysis. • aeroscope n. A type of compressed air camera for making films, constructed by Polish inventor Kazimierz Prószyński in 1909. • AEROSCOPE n. a device for observing the atmosphere. |
| BAROSCOPE | • baroscope n. Barometer. • BAROSCOPE n. a weatherglass. |
| BIOSCOPES | • bioscopes n. Plural of bioscope. • BIOSCOPE n. an early movie projector. |
| CRYOSCOPE | • cryoscope n. A device used to measure the freezing point of a liquid (or the melting point of a solid). • CRYOSCOPE n. an instrument for determining freezing points of substances. |
| ENDOSCOPE | • endoscope n. An instrument used to examine a bodily orifice or canal, or a hollow organ. • ENDOSCOPE n. an instrument for visualizing the interior of a hollow organ. |
| FETOSCOPE | • fetoscope n. A flexible fibreoptic device used to view a foetus in the womb. • fetoscope n. A form of stethoscope for listening to the foetal heartbeat. • FETOSCOPE n. an instrument used for looking at the fetus. |
| GYROSCOPE | • gyroscope n. An apparatus composed of a wheel which spins inside of a frame (gimbal) and causes the balancing of… • GYROSCOPE n. a wheel or disc mounted so that it can spin rapidly about an axis which itself can rotate about either of two other axes perpendicular to it and to each other. |
| HODOSCOPE | • hodoscope n. (Physics) A device, consisting of multiple detectors, that is used to track the path of cosmic rays… • HODOSCOPE n. an instrument for tracing paths of ionizing particles. |
| HOROSCOPE | • horoscope n. The position of the planets and stars at the moment of someone’s birth; a diagram of such positions. • horoscope n. An astrological forecast of a person’s future based on such information. • HOROSCOPE n. a map of the heavens at the hour or on the day of a person's birth, by which an astrologer predicts the events of a person's life. |
| MUTOSCOPE | • mutoscope n. A motion-picture device of the late nineteenth century, to be viewed by one person at a time through a peephole. • MUTOSCOPE n. an early form of cinematograph. |
| MYOSCOPES | • myoscopes n. Plural of myoscope. • MYOSCOPE n. an instrument for observing muscular contractions. |
| OTOSCOPES | • otoscopes n. Plural of otoscope. • OTOSCOPE n. an instrument for examining the ear. |
| POROSCOPE | • poroscope n. A device for measuring permeability. • POROSCOPE n. an instrument for investigating porosity. |
| PYROSCOPE | • pyroscope n. (Dated, physics) An early form of pyrometer used to measure high temperatures. • PYROSCOPE n. an instrument for measuring intensity of radiant heat. |
| RHEOSCOPE | • rheoscope n. An instrument for detecting the presence or movement of currents, as of electricity. • RHEOSCOPE n. an instrument for detecting the existence of an electric current. |
| ROTOSCOPE | • rotoscope n. (Film, television, visual effects) A technique in which animators trace live-action movement frame by frame. • rotoscope v. (Transitive) To use this technique upon. • ROTOSCOPE v. to create the outline of an object from live-action film for manipulation in an animated film sequence. |