reticular

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Borrowed from New Latin rēticulāris, from Latin rēticulum (“little net”).

Captain Nemo had brought a spyglass with a reticular eyepiece, which corrected the sun’s refraction by means of a mirror, and he used it to observe the orb sinking little by little along a very extended diagonal that reached below the horizon. — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World, Jules Verne

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