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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Heliostat

· He·li·o·stat · IPA
01 n. An instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, by which a sunbeam is made apparently stationary, by being steadily directed to on…
  1. 1.
    An instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, by which a sunbeam is made apparently stationary, by being steadily directed to one spot during the whole of its diurnal period; also, a geodetic heliotrope.