borescope
verbEtymology From bore + -scope.
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To see inside or examine (something) using a borescope.
- Maintenance borescoped the jet engine to check for damaged turbine blades.
- Related terms
- endoscope, periscope, videoscope
borescope
nounEtymology From bore + -scope.
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An optical instrument used for seeing inside tight spaces, consisting of a rigid or flexible tube with an optical relay inside so that the view through a lens or window at one end of the tube may be seen from a lens or eyepiece in the opposite end of the tube.