reticle
a network of fine lines, wires, or the like placed in the focus of the eyepiece of an optical instrument.
Origin of reticle
1- Also reticule.
Words Nearby reticle
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How to use reticle in a sentence
Gleaming like the chassis of a spaceship, it holds the glass reticle and also has mounted on it huge, barrel-shaped molecular pumps.
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British Dictionary definitions for reticle
less commonly reticule
/ (ˈrɛtɪkəl) /
a network of fine lines, wires, etc, placed in the focal plane of an optical instrument to assist measurement of the size or position of objects under observation: Also called: graticule
Origin of reticle
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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