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Scioptic

Sci*op"tic\, a. [Gr. ? shadow + ? belonging to sight: cf. F. scioptique. See Optic.] (Opt.) Of or pertaining to an optical arrangement for forming images in a darkened room, usually called scioptic ball.

Scioptic ball (Opt.), the lens of a camera obscura mounted in a wooden ball which fits a socket in a window shutter so as to be readily turned, like the eye, to different parts of the landscape.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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