(a.) Of or pertaining to Galileo; as, the Galilean telescope. See Telescope.
(a.) Of or relating to Galilee.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Galilee, the northern province of Palestine under the Romans.
(n.) One of the party among the Jews, who opposed the payment of tribute to the Romans; -- called also Gaulonite.
(n.) A Christian in general; -- used as a term of reproach by Mohammedans and Pagans.
Example Sentences:
(1) A telescopic system for distance consisting of a negative contact lens (-10.0 - -20.0 D) as the eye piece and a positive spectacle lens (+8.0 - +16.0 D) as the objective, a modification of the Galilean telescope was examined.
(2) The combination of a high minus setting of the ophthalmoscope and an extra positive lens in front of the patient's eye forms a Galilean telescope that increases magnification in direct ophthalmoscopy.
(3) The Keplerian telescopes, however, had about twice the field of view of the Galilean telescopes.
(4) The modulation transfer functions (MTF's) of 131 low power Galilean and Pechan roof prism Keplerian telescopes comprising 20 models from 7 vendors were measured.
(5) Panoramic prismatic loupes are optically superior to standard binocular Galilean loupes and are rivaled only by operating microscopes.
(6) Repeatably measured central fields of less than 4 degrees diameter showed an unexpected enlargement up to 20 to 40 degrees diameter, when fitted with reversed full field 1.3x and 1.7x Galilean telescopes.
(7) Magnifying spectacles represent one of the indispensable optical aids (Keplerian systems having surpassed Galilean systems during the last years), closed-circuit television, Optacon, and navigating aids based on ultrasound as environmental sensors.
(8) The retinal image size can be assessed using a spectacle-contact lens combination similar to an inverted Galilean telescope system.
(9) The MTF's of Galilean telescopes tested on-axis with vertical and horizontal gratings were equivalent, as expected of rotationally symmetrical devices.
(10) MTF results are compared according to model, by type (Galilean or Keplerian), and magnification.
(11) The method is most simple to apply to short-length, low-powered Galilean tesescopes, such as those used as low vision aids, in sports glasses, and in telescopic loupes.
(12) The Bilevel Telemicroscope Apparatus (BITA) is a new galilean telescope designed to offer improved cosmesis, weight, field of view and spatial orientation over more traditional spectacle-mounted telescopic systems.
(13) Roof-prism Keplerian telescopes provided about one-half the resolution, 30% lower transmittance, and more objectionable image flare than Galilean designs.
(14) The lightweight, mechanically simple instrument uses a variable focus Galilean telescopic observation system to enlarge the condensing lens image of the fundus seen by the examiner.
(15) Galilean telescopes exhibited superior MTF's compared to Keplerian designs.
(16) The pinhole camera, the Keplerian and Galilean telescopes, the corner reflector, optical fibres, and interference filters, are all names of optical devices invented by man.
(17) They are quite different from the Galilean telescopic spectacles, hitherto available, with their lower mangifications, short working distances, chromatic aberration, and peripheral unsharpness.
(18) It states the equivalence mc2 = Bvl coulomb, where 1 is length of a biological string and v is the Galilean inertial velocity of said string through flux density B.
(19) The role of intraocular lens implantation is discussed, as well as the newly developed intraocular lens which, with the addition of a plus-lens, functions as a Galilean telescope to provide magnification for near vision.
(20) The way the pancreatic magnification changer works can be described very simply as a synthesis of two Galilean telescopes.
Roman
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Rome, or the Roman people; like or characteristic of Rome, the Roman people, or things done by Romans; as, Roman fortitude; a Roman aqueduct; Roman art.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic religion; professing that religion.
(a.) Upright; erect; -- said of the letters or kind of type ordinarily used, as distinguished from Italic characters.
(a.) Expressed in letters, not in figures, as I., IV., i., iv., etc.; -- said of numerals, as distinguished from the Arabic numerals, 1, 4, etc.
(n.) A native, or permanent resident, of Rome; a citizen of Rome, or one upon whom certain rights and privileges of a Roman citizen were conferred.
(n.) Roman type, letters, or print, collectively; -- in distinction from Italics.
Example Sentences:
(1) The club then brought in Darren Randolph, Dean Brill, Scott Flinders, Roman Larrieu, and Simon Royce on loan at various times."
(2) It has been a place of pilgrimage for many centuries and a tourist attraction probably since Roman times.
(3) After heading for Rome with his long-term partner, Howard Auster, he returned to fiction with a bestselling novel, Julian, based on the life of a late Roman emperor; a political novel, Washington DC, based on his own family; and Myra Breckinridge, a subversive satire that examined contradictions of gender and sexuality with enough comic brio to become a worldwide bestseller.
(4) So the worst start to a campaign in the Roman Abramovich era has condemned Chelsea to the top of the Premier League table.
(5) Most of what we know about it comes from the accounts given by the Roman writers Polybius (c200-118BC) and Livy (59BC-AD17).
(6) These include 250 pieces of Greek and Roman pottery and sculpture, and 1,500 Greek and Ottoman gold, silver and bronze coins.
(7) They too will almost certainly play a 4-2-3-1, with Messrs Piszczek, Subotic, Hummels and Schmeizer lining up from right to left in front of goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller.
(8) A treasure trove of more than £1.7bn-worth of old masters paintings, Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquities, ancient weapons and prehistoric archaeological items were allowed to be sold overseas in the year to May 2013, according to official statistics issued by the government .
(9) JV If you go back to a western point of view from the time, even the Romans, the slaves worked then in a feudal society.
(10) About 4,000 government-issued shovels were handed out in several main piazzas to Romans trying to clear their streets before a freeze forecast for Sunday evening.
(11) Meanwhile, Chelsea fans' disgruntlement grows: "I know Rafa said no more transfers in January but we still need a midfielder and I don't think Roman or Emenalo share their thoughts with Rafa," blubs Mihir Khatwani.
(12) Sophie Jackson, of Museum of London Archaeology , said: "The waterlogged conditions left by the Walbrook stream have given us layer upon layer of Roman timber buildings, fences and yards, all beautifully preserved and containing amazing personal items, clothes and even documents – all of which will transform our understanding of the people of Roman London."
(13) In December he smashed apart the Roman forces in the north, assisted by his awesome elephants, the tanks of classical warfare.
(14) He has chosen to live in a modest Vatican hotel room instead of the grandeur of the apostolic palace; and he has dropped some of the papal pomp, while preaching the Roman Catholic church's need to identify with the world's poor.
(15) We aren't surprised that the Romans had nothing to say about, say, the nearby Avebury stone circle, because it's far less manifest than Stonehenge – and by extension, the oblivion of time that blankets scores of British Neolithic and bronze age sites is in keeping with our current ignorance: to this day, so few people visit them that their enigmatic character is itself underimagined.
(16) In spite of his place at the top of the Vatican hierarchy and his academic pedigree, he has urged the church to do more to appeal to the modern world, arguing it needs to build on the second Vatican Council of the 1960s, which proved a landmark moment in Roman Catholic history.
(17) Analysis of the genetic distance between Romanians and other Europeans who have been studied serologically are consistent with the hypothesis that Romanians descend from Roman ancestors who colonized Dacia between the 1st century B.C.
(18) "The relationship between a bishop and a priest of a Roman Catholic diocese has many of the hallmarks of an employment relationship, and therefore it is right and proper that the church should be held legally accountable for abuse by its priests.
(19) "I am a Roman Catholic and it's the backbone of my life.
(20) The plasma membrane components of five human B-cell lines and three human T-cell lines were separated by dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, incubated with the radioactive labeled lectins from lentil, castor bean, wheat germ, Phaseolus bean, peanut, gorse and the Roman snail and the molecular weights of the binding sites determined.