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borescope.

Noun
Sci-FiSettingTechnical
MEANING

An optical inspection instrument used to see inside narrow or otherwise inaccessible spaces.

Use it for

examining an engine without dismantling it; a camera fed into a pipe; inspecting hidden internal damage; seeing through a small access opening

Words that belong together

  • a flexible borescope
  • borescope inspection
  • insert a borescope

On the page

He threaded the borescope through the service port and found a loose fragment near the turbine.
The borescope revealed scoring that no external scan had resolved.

Related words

inspection scopeendoscopefiberscope
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borescope

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Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular borescope; plural borescopes. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.

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