Noun: heliostat
| Singular | heliostat |
| Plural | heliostats |
Sample Sentences
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Each heliostat can be directed to bathe a particular park bench or tree in a beam of light. […] The three heliostats cost $355,000 together, not apiece. [2005 June 2, Timothy Williams, “INK; Here Comes the Sun, Redirected”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 29 May 2015:]
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In reply, the clockwork heliostats that had tracked the sun to reflect light into the indoor areas during the day now swivelled towards the street lamp to do the same for the night. [2024, Jasper Fforde, Red Side Story, Hodder & Stoughton, page 90:]
Nouns inflected like heliostat
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
First use appear c. 1747, from New Latin heliostata, from Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hḗlios, “sun”) + Latin status (“stationary”). By surface analysis, helio- + -stat. See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
ἥλιος', Latin Nouns '
status'.