Usually means: Device for viewing truths, realities.
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  1. alethoscope: Wordnik
  2. alethoscope: Wiktionary
  3. Alethoscope, alethoscope: Dictionary.com
  4. Alethoscope: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Alethoscope: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. alethoscope: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Alethoscope: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. alethoscope: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Alethoscope: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (alethoscope)

noun:  (historical) An instrument, invented in the 1860s, for viewing magnified pictures by means of a single lens inside a box. By varying the intensity of the light, the same picture can be shown as "daytime" or "nighttime".

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