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reticule |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Reticule \Ret"i*cule\, n.. [F. r['e]ticule, L. reticulum, dim. of rete a net. Cf.{Retina}, {Reticle}.] 1. A little bag, originally of network; a woman's workbag, or a little bag to be carried in the hand. --De Quincey. 2. A system of wires or lines in the focus of a telescope or other instrument; a reticle. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: reticule n 1: a woman's drawstring handbag; usually made of net or beading or brocade; used in 18th and 19th centuries 2: a system of fine lines, dots, cross hairs, or wires in the focal plane of the eyepiece of an optical instrument [syn: {reticle}, {graticule}]
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