Meaning of diascope | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A projector used for projecting transparencies.
2. a slide viewer, a device for looking at small transparent images.
3. A flat piece of glass or transparent plastic, used to examine lesions in the skin

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Examples

“The diascope test pattern reference for automatic setup is a transparency (Figure 3), built into all TK47B lenses.”

“When it is used to project a slide then at serves as a diascope.”

“The diascope passes light through the two-dimensional object (such as a photographic transparency, slide, or film) and uses a converging projection lens to form an enlarged image on a distant screen.”

“The diascope (a flat piece of glass) was used to press out the blood and expose the apple-jelly points of marginal growth.”

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