Associations to the word «Schmidt»

Wiktionary

SCHMIDT CAMERA, noun. (astronomy) A camera mounted in a Schmidt telescope
SCHMIDT ISLAND, proper noun. An island in the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago of the Russian Arctic
SCHMIDT TELESCOPE, noun. (astronomy) A telescope, having a wide field of view, comprising a thin aspheric lens and a large concave mirror

Dictionary definition

SCHMIDT, noun. German statesman who served as chancellor of Germany (born in 1918).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope