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Answer for the clue "Optical telescope consisting of a large concave mirror that produces an image that is magnified by the eyepiece ", 9 letters:
reflector

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Alternatively, the light can be bounced off special reflectors, and sheets of white expanded polystyrene are ideal for this purpose. ▪ Each wears reflector sunglasses, and the gleam off the frames matches the gleam off the buckles ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reflector \Re*flect"or\ (-[~e]r), n. [Cf. F. r['e]flecteur.] One who, or that which, reflects. --Boyle. (Physics) Something having a polished surface for reflecting light or heat, as a mirror, a speculum, etc. A reflecting telescope. A device for reflecting ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In cellular automata such as Conway's Game of Life , a reflector is a pattern that can interact with a spaceship to change its direction of motion, without damage to the reflector pattern. In Life, many oscillators can reflect the glider ; there also exist ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Something which reflects heat, light or sound, especially something having a reflecting surface.

Usage examples of reflector.

And here, reflector fifty-three, bottom slab eighty-eight, top slab with the hole in it for the bullet, eighty, plus the twelve of beryllium, two thirty-three.

The surface of this modern extravaganza was textured with terraces, glass canopies, solar reflectors and the tracks of its dozens of elevators.

When the ritual of obstructionism to obtain the spectra of the BSOs ensued, Margaret Burbridge, a Briton with over fifty years of observational experience, bypassed the regular channels to make the measurement herself using the relatively small 3-meter reflector telescope on Mount Hamilton outside San Jose in California, and confirmed them to be quasars.

The thick cord of an antiquated electric bowl fire shared a power-point with the thinner cord of a photoflood lamp and reflector on a tall metal stand.

She was a ghost: the sunlight penetrated her like a stained-glass window left to grow filthy in a neglected church, her photophores and reflectors providing brilliant splashes of color.

It struck the backstop not a foot from the goal, but before the eagle-eyed Weems could shift his hand, a Polliwog player was in the air and had caught it with one of his reflectors.

I picked out the stunner by its parabolic reflector, the cameras, and a toroidal coil that had to be part of the floater device.

It struck the backstop not a foot from the goal, but before the eagle-eyed Weems could shift his hand, a Polliwog player was in the air and had caught it with one of his reflectors.

The well in which the eighty-inch Cassegrain reflector had rested was shadowy and cold.

It was darker yet in the outlying streets of cheaply built and dearly rented white frame houses, streets where bright lights and neon were strangers, streets where fluted-saucer reflectors behind incandescent bulbs threw islands of light at sixty-foot intervals in the sea of night.

The lake, like a huge reflector, flashed its light up into the heavens.

Gleaming, massive, gray as hypothermic death, it descended like a steel flower under its five outspread antigrav reflectors.

William Stenton would never have been able to grab the Farside two-hundred-metre reflector for a full quarter of an hour, if a more important programme had not been temporarily derailed by the failure of a fifty cent capacitor.

They had multiple layers of superdense metal shielding, high-power dipole field generators, even a liquid-envelope radiation reflector.

Focused and concentrated by all that superdense metal and liquid reflectors that were there to keep radiation out.