Optical instruments
Optical instruments and apparatus: lenses, magnifiers, microscopes, spectacles, telescopes, binoculars, etc.; fibre-optic devices.
- Code
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Meaning
Language
Themes and places
- AAIR
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Advanced Atmospheric sounder and Imaging Radiometer
- ABRIXAS
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Broadband Imaging X-ray All-sky Survey
- AIRS
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Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
- ALEXIS
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Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors
- AMOS
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Air Force Maui Optical System
The abbreviation AMOS (Air Force Maui Optical System) includes the abbreviation AF (Air Force).
- AMSR
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Advanced Microwave Sounding Radiometer
- ANTF
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Australia Telescope National Facility (https://www.atnf.csiro.au/)
- AOS
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ACTS Optical System
- AOT
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Alignment Optical Telescope
- ATA
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Allen Telescope Array
- ATCA
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Australian Telescope Compact Array
- ATM
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Apollo Telescope Mount
- AXAF
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Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility
- ApOpt
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Applied Optics
- BAT
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Burst Alert Telescope
- BBXRT
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Broad Band X-Ray Telescope
- BBXRT
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Broadband X-Ray Telescope
- BCFHT
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Bulletin d’information du téléscope Canada-France-Hawaii
- BDY
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Burst Detector Optical Sensor
- BUOU
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Backup Optical Unit
- CDSC
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Coupling-Display Scanning-Telescope Manual Control
- CIRRIS
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Cryogenic Infrared Radiance Instrument(ation) for Shuttle
- CLSM
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Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope
= MCBL | Microscope Confocal à Balayage Laser | In French
- CLSM
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Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy
= MCBL | Microscopie Confocale à Balayage Laser | In French
- CORA
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Coherent Optical Radar Amplifier
- COSTAR
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Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement
- CRISTA
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Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometer Telescope for Atmosphere
- CoRoT
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Convection, Rotation & planetary Transits
= CoRoT | Convection, Rotation et Transits planétaires | In French
- CoRoT
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Convection, Rotation et Transits planétaires
= CoRoT (see above)
- DIRV
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Dedicated Interferometer for Rapid Variability
- EGRET
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Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope
- EGRET
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Energetic Gamma Ray Explorer Telescope
- ELT
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Extremely Large Telescope
- FO
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Fiber-Optic
The abbreviation FO (Fiber-Optic) is included in abbreviations such as FODS (Fiber-Optic Demonstration System), FOG (Fiber-Optic Gyro), FOGM (Fiber-Optic Guided Missile) and FOIRL (Fiber-Optic Inter-Repeater Link).
- FOC
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Faint Object Camera
- FODS
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Fiber-Optic Demonstration System
The abbreviation FODS (Fiber-Optic Demonstration System) includes the abbreviation FO (Fiber-Optic).
- FOG
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Fiber-Optic Gyro
The abbreviation FOG (Fiber-Optic Gyro) includes the abbreviation FO (Fiber-Optic).
- FOGM
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Fiber-Optic Guided Missile
The abbreviation FOGM (Fiber-Optic Guided Missile) includes abbreviations FO (Fiber-Optic) and GM (Guided Missile).
- FOIRL
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Fiber-Optic Inter-Repeater Link
The abbreviation FOIRL (Fiber-Optic Inter-Repeater Link) includes the abbreviation FO (Fiber-Optic).
- FORC
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Fiber Optics Research Center (www.fibopt.ru/eng/)
- FOS
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Faint Object Spectrograph
- FTT
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Field Test Telescope
- FiIO
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Fiber and Integrated Optics
- GHRS
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Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph
- GLAST
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Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope
- HIRS
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High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder
- HRIR
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High-Resolution Infrared Radiometer
- HRMA
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High-Resolution Mirror Assembly
- HST
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Hubble Space Telescope
- HUT
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Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope
- HiRDLS
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High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder
- IACT
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Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope
- IASI
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Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
- IRBS
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Infrared Background Sensor
- IRIS
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Infrared Instrumentation System
The abbreviation IRIS (Infrared Instrumentation System) includes the abbreviation IS (Instrumentation System).
- ISAMS
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Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder
- ISM
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Image Steering Mirror
- ISO
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Infrared Space Observatory
- ITU
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Infrared Telescope Unit
- InPhT
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Infrared Physics and Technology
- JMic
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Journal of Microscopy
- LAIRT
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Large-Aperture Infrared Telescope
- LAMP
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LODE Advanced Mirror Program
- LMD
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Large Mirror Development
- LOCS
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Local Optical Correction System
- LST
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Large Space Telescope
- LST
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Large Stellar Telescope
- MAGIC
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Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov Telescope
- MAS
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Millimeter-wave Atmospheric Sounder
- MCBL
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Microscope Confocal à Balayage Laser
= CLSM, MCBL (see above)
- MCBL
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Microscopie Confocale à Balayage Laser
= CLSM, MCBL (see above)
- MICOS
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Multifunctional Infrared Coherent Optical Sensor
- MITTS
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Mobile IGOR Tracking Telescope System
- MLA
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Monochrome Lens Assembly
- MLS
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Microwave Limb Sounder
- MMOS
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Multimode Optical Sensor
- MRIR
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Medium Resolution Infrared Radiometer
- MSU
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Microwave Sounding Unit
- MiMic
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Microscopy and Microanalysis
- NuSTAR
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Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array
- OAS
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Optical Assembly Simulator
- ODA
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Optical Diagnostic Assembly
- OISAR
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Optical Inverse Synthetic-Aperture Radar
The abbreviation OISAR (Optical Inverse Synthetic-Aperture Radar) includes abbreviations SAR (Synthetic-Aperture Radar) and ISAR (Inverse Synthetic-Aperture Radar).
- OTA
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Optical Telescope Assembly
- PALM
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Photoactivated Localization Microscopy
- PMIRR
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Pressure Modulator Infrared Radiometer
- RL
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Reimaging Lens
- RM
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Relay Mirror
- RXTE
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Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer
- S&T
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Sky and Telescope
- SIRTF
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Space Infrared Telescope Facility
- SIRTF
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Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility
- SIXA
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Silicon X-Ray Array
- SOQ
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System Optical Quality
- SOT
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Solar Optical Telescope
- SPIRIT
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Spatial Infrared Telescope
- ST
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Space Telescope
- STORM
-
Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy
- STScI
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Space Telescope Science Institute (https://www.stsci.edu/)
- TETRA
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Terminal Tracking Telescope
- THEMIS
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Télescope Héliographique pour l’Étude du Magnétisme et des Instabilités
- THIR
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Temperature/Humidity Infrared Radiometer
- TMA
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Technology Mirror Assembly
- TRE/ITU
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Teal Ruby Experiment/Infrared Telescope Unit
- UIT
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Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
- UT
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Unit Telescope
- VAS
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VISSR Atmospheric Sounder
- VERITAS
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Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System
- VISSR
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Visible/Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer
- VLT
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Very Large Telescope
- WFPC
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Wide Field Planetary Camera
- WUPPE
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Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment
- XEUS
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X-Ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy