zone plate

noun

zone plate

noun

1

A Fresnel zone plate.

And Fresnel's countryman, Laurent Koechlin, of the Midi-Pyrénées observatory, thinks zone plates are the way to find out if there is life on other planets.2012 June 9, “Twinkle, twinkle, little planet”, in The Economist:

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