"tube" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The double ring holds within itself a sighting tube with crosshairs.
- An astronomical check on timekeeping was made by a sighting tube pointed to a selected star.
- The men who put up Venus Equilateral had no idea that someone would be using the station for a sighting tube some day.
- The left hand then gripped the sighting tube, giving it a gentle shake that caused it to extend beyond the doorway.
- Many users prefer a simple sighting tube, which has a wider, brighter field of view and is easier to use at night.
- Improving the 5th century model of the astronomical sighting tube, Shen Kuo widened its diameter so that the new calibration could observe the polestar indefinitely.
- On the use of the sighting tube to fix the position of the pole star, Shen Kuo wrote:
- The dioptra was a sighting tube or, alternatively, a rod with a sight at both ends, attached to a stand.
- To allow more accurate astronomical observations and recordings, Shen Kuo improved the technical designs of the rotating armillary sphere, the gnomon, the clepsydra clock, and the sighting tube.
- He was also responsible for proposing a plan of having a sighting tube mounted ecliptically in order for the better observation of celestial latitudes.
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