All observatory synonyms
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O o noun observatory
- building — A building is a structure that has a roof and walls, for example a house or a factory.
- station — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- laboratory — a building, part of a building, or other place equipped to conduct scientific experiments, tests, investigations, etc., or to manufacture chemicals, medicines, or the like.
- telescope — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
- viewpoint — a place affording a view of something; position of observation: to sketch a river from the viewpoint of a bluff.
- watchtower — a tower on which a sentinel keeps watch.
- lookout — Cape, a sandy reef in the Outer Banks, off E North Carolina, SW of Cape Hatteras: lighthouse.
- tower — the fiber of flax, hemp, or jute prepared for spinning by scutching.
- catbird seat — an enviable position, as of power