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refractor

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refractor

In astronomy, telescope in which light is collected and brought to a focus by a convex lens (the object lens or objective).
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THE Director of an Observatory, who, with a thirty-six-inch refractor, had discovered the moon, hastened to an Editor, with a four-column account of the event.
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