speculum
noun
a mirror or reflector, especially one of polished metal, as on a reflecting telescope.
specula
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pluralof speculum.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Adding “Web MD” brought back the same results, albeit staged in doctors’ offices, with lab coats and specula as props.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 15, 2019
The firm also apparently compounded its problems through ill-advised specula tion in the market for Government securities.
From Time Magazine Archive
He made 430 parabolic specula in twenty-one years.
From History of Astronomy by George Forbes
The lenses and achromatic glasses, tubes and specula, concave mirrors, and object-prisms, and the huge, rough old telescope, peering through the roof, were still there as their owner had left them.
From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various
I exhibited to him my apparatus for obtaining sound castings of specula for reflecting telescopes.
From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Samuel Smiles
