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noun
A grid of horizontal and vertical lines; specifically, one used as a guide to proportionately enlarge or reduce a drawing.
The network of lines of latitude and longitude that make up a coordinate system such as the one used for charts and maps of the Earth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geography, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A grid of horizontal and vertical lines; specifically, one used as a guide to proportionately enlarge or reduce a drawing.
Synonym of reticle (“a transparent plate marked with a crosshair, grid, or scale which is used in an optical instrument, etc., to aid in alignment, counting, or measurement of objects being observed; also, the crosshair, grid, or scale on such a plate”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, optics, physical-sciences, physics
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Synonyms: reticule, reticle
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A (nearly) rectangular or square region created by a grid of horizontal and vertical lines.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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noun
a network of fine lines, dots, cross hairs, or wires in the focal plane of the eyepiece of an optical instrument
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: reticle, reticule
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: network
History
Borrowed from French graticule, from Medieval Latin grātīcula, from Latin crāticula (“grating, grill”), from crātis (“hurdle; wickerwork”) (probably from Proto-Indo-European *kréh2-tis (“fenced handiwork”)) + -cula (feminine form of -culus, a variant of -ulus (“diminutive suffix”)).
Across languages
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