Word Meanings - GALILEAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to Galileo; as, the Galilean telescope. See Telescope.

TELESCOPE BAG
An adjustable traveling bag consisting of two cases, the larger slipping over the other.
PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
GALILEAN
Of or pertaining to Galileo; as, the Galilean telescope. See Telescope.
TELESCOPE
An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies. Note: A telescope assists the eye chiefly in two ways; first, by enlarging the visual angle under which a distant object is seen, and thus magnifying that object; and,
WATER TELESCOPE
1. A telescope in which the medium between the objective and the eye piece is water instead of air, used in some experiments in aberration. 2. A telescope devised for looking into a body of water.
PHOTOTELESCOPE
A telescope adapted for taking photographs of the heavenly bodies.
APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach