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A network of fine lines used by astronomers as a reference for measurements on star photographs
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reseau
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n. a net or mesh foundation for lace a network of fine lines used by astronomers as a reference for measurements on star photographs [also: reseaux (pl)]
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The term réseau derives from a French word meaning "network". It may mean: a network of fine lines on a glass plate, used in photographic telescopes to make a corresponding network on photographs of the stars: see Réseau plate a system of weather stations ...
Usage examples of reseau.
And in their branches on a winter night you can see they make a reseau about the stars.
Boston sky that instead of a kindly curved blue dome with your clouds and your stars and sun was a flat square coldly Euclidian grid with black axes and a thread-fine reseau of lines creating grid-type coordinates, the whole grid the same color as a D.
Following the failure of Petit-Clamart and the interrogation of the prisoners three whole reseaux inside France had had to be closed down.