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scotoscope

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Any instrument for viewing objects in the dark or in a faint light.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • August 13th 1664, Samuel Pepys, Diary (London: Marshall Cavendish, 1988), 133. “Comes Mr. Reeve, with a microscope and scotoscope. [...] The other [the scotoscope] he gives me, and is of value; and a curious curiosity it is to discover objects in a dark room with.”

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History

Etymology

From scoto- + -scope.