Definitions For Heliostat

Noun

HELIOSTAT (plural HELIOSTATs) A device that includes a plane mirror which turns so as to keep reflecting sunlight toward a predetermined target, compensating for the sun's apparent motions in the sky. The target may be a physical object, distant from the heliostat, or a direction in space, and is almost always stationary relative to the heliostat, so the light is reflected in a fixed direction.

Translations

French: héliostat, m German: Heliostat, m Ido: heliostato Italian: eliostato Spanish: heliostato, m, helióstato, m

Etymology

Circa 1750, from {{etyl, NL., en}} heliostata, from (Ancient Greek)  ἥλιος, , sun + {{etyl, la, en}} status, , stationary.

Anagrams

loathiest, thiolates