telespectroscope

British

/ ˌtɛlɪˈspɛktrəˌskəʊp /

noun

a combination of a telescope and a spectroscope, used for spectroscopic analysis of radiation from stars and other celestial bodies

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Telespectroscope, tel-ē-spek′trō-skōp, n. a combined astronomical telescope and spectroscope.

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The flowing gray landscape off there gave no sign of our quarry; yet we knew we could not pass it, without at least a brief flash of it in the telespectroscope and upon the image-mirror.

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Frequently it gazed eastward along the tiny beam of light which issued from the telespectroscope.

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He was at the telespectroscope.

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Through the telespectroscope one cage was visible to the other across the five hundred feet of intervening Space when they approached a simultaneous Time; when they, so to speak, were tuned in unison.

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