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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Refractor \Re*fract"or\ (r?-fr?kt"?r), noun Anything that refracts; specifically: (Opt.) A refracting telescope, in which the image to be viewed is formed by the refraction of light in passing through a convex lens.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
22 Moby Thesaurus words for "refractor": Cassegrainian telescope, Newtonian telescope, OAO, OSO, astronomical observatory, astronomical telescope, coelostat, coronagraph, coronograph, heliostat, observatory, orrery, planetarium, radar telescope, radio observatory, radio telescope, reflector, spectrograph, spectroheliograph, spectrohelioscope, spectroscope, telescope
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