Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Siderostat

Siderostat , noun

[Latin sidus, sideris, a star + Greek {not transcribed} standing, fixed, from {not transcribed} to place.]

(Astronomy) An apparatus consisting essentially of a mirror moved by clockwork so as to throw the rays of the sun or a star in a fixed direction; -- a more general term for heliostat.