Noun: reticle
| Singular | reticle |
| Plural | reticles |
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonym: photomask (broadly synonymous in context)
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On the following day Mrs. Kent went into the bed-room; and laid a reticle, which contained the money, upon her bed; and afterwards returned into the sitting-room; leaving the door between that and the bed-room open. After she had remained in the sitting-room about five minutes, she sent Miss S. for the reticle; and it was not to be found. [1833, Francis Vesey, A General Digested Table and Index of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, volume 20, page ix:]
Nouns inflected like reticle
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
Borrowed from Late Latin rēticulum, diminutive of Latin rēte (“net”). Doublet of reticulum, Reticulum, and reticule. See: Latin Nouns '
rēte'.