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Definition of: reticle
(ret′i·kəl) noun Optics
The network of fine threads or lines of reference in the focal plane of a telescope or other optical instrument, serving to determine the position of an observed object: also spelled reticule. [<L reticulum. Doublet of RETICULUM.]
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