heliostats
Meaning of heliostats
noun
A device that includes a plane mirror which turns so as to keep reflecting sunlight toward a predetermined target, compensating for the sun's apparent motions in the sky. The target may be a physical object, distant from the heliostat, or a direction in space, and is almost always stationary relative to the heliostat, so the light is reflected in a fixed direction.
Information about heliostats
- It is a name.
- The singular form of heliostats is: heliostat.
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Hyphenation of heliostats
he-liostats
- It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
- heliostats is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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