Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Heliostat

Heliostat , noun

[Helio- + Greek {not transcribed} placed, standing, from {not transcribed} to place, stand: compare French héliostate.]

An instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, by which a sunbeam is made apparently stationary, by being steadily directed to one spot during the whole of its diurnal period; also, a geodetic heliotrope.