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
It is a pity that Dr. Walsh does not quote in full Pope John's other and much more interesting bull, Super illius specula, of 1326.
From The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time by James J. Walsh
After making this tool according to Mr. Nasmyth's pattern, father found it applicable to metal specula only, and unsuitable to glass inasmuch as it would not parabolize, or work in the figure of a parabola.
From The Life of Roger Langdon Told by himself. With additions by his daughter Ellen. [With a preface by H. Clifton Lambert.] by Henry Clifton Lambert
I know of a gentleman who made a hundred of these specula with his own hands.
From The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by George Manville Fenn
