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Definition of Paraboloid reflector

1. Noun. A concave reflector used to produce a parallel beam when the source is placed at its focus or to focus an incoming parallel beam.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Paraboloid Reflector

Literary usage of Paraboloid reflector

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Workshop Receipts by Ernest Spon, Charles George Warnford Lock, Robert Haldane (1889)
"102. undulatory light being thrown upon its cylindrical face by a paraboloid reflector, in whose focus it is placed. This beautiful little instrument ..."

2. The Microscope: An Introduction to Microscopic Methods and to Histology by Simon Henry Gage (1920)
"... paraboloid reflector (1850), and truncated paraboloid (1856). The Corning Daylight Glass for microscope lamps has proved such a boon, that an improved ..."

3. The American Engineers in France by William Barclay Parsons (1920)
"The other type of detector was the paraboloid reflector. For those who have not investigated or who may have forgotten their conic sections, ..."

4. A Text Book of the Principles of Physics by Alfred Daniell (1895)
"In the same figure, the wave-front is one which starts from F as a centre; it meets the paraboloid reflector; it is reflected with a plane wave- front. 3. ..."

5. The Microscope, and Its Application to Clinical Medicine by Lionel Smith Beale (1854)
"This may be obtained under the name of Wenham's paraboloid reflector. My friend Mr. Brooke has applied this instrument very successfully for the ..."

6. Journal of Applied Microscopy by Bausch & Lomb Optical Company (1900)
"... the light from which is projected by a paraboloid reflector through an aperture in the partition into the apparatus in the large room. ..."

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