Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Heliometer

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Heliometer


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(n.) An instrument devised originally for measuring the diameter of the sun; now employed for delicate measurements of the distance and relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope.