heliostat
Meaning of heliostat
noun
A device that includes a plane mirror which turns so as to keep reflecting sunlight toward a predetermined target, compensating for the sun's apparent motions in the sky. The target may be a physical object, distant from the heliostat, or a direction in space, and is almost always stationary relative to the heliostat, so the light is reflected in a fixed direction.
Information about heliostat
- It is a name.
- The plural form of heliostat is: heliostats.
- Languages in which heliostat is used:
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Hyphenation of heliostat
he-lio-stat
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- heliostat is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Anagrams of heliostat
Words that rhyme with heliostat
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