Usually means: Telescope design using mirrors, compact.
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  1. Cassegrain: Merriam-Webster
  2. Cassegrain: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Cassegrain: Wordnik
  4. Cassegrain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. Cassegrain (crater), Cassegrain: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Cassegrain: Wiktionary

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  1. Cassegrain: Extragalactic Astronomy

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Cassegrain)

noun:  Short for Cassegrain reflector. [A combination of a primary concave mirror and a secondary convex mirror, often used in optical telescopes and radio antennas, the main characteristic being that the optical path folds back onto itself, relative to the optical system's primary mirror entrance aperture.]

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