image intensifier

British

noun

any of various devices for amplifying the intensity of an optical image, sometimes used in conjunction with an image converter

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Last week at the Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., Astronomers Albert G. Wilson and Earle Slipher predicted that the image intensifier would break the Mars deadlock.

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