Astrolabe
- n. A stereographic projection of the sphere on the plane of a great circle, as the equator, or a meridian; a planisphere.
- n. An instrument for observing or showing the positions of the stars. It is now disused.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.