WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
speck′le pat′tern, [Astron.]
- Astronomythe visual appearance of a star as viewed through a large telescope, with irregularities caused by the distorting effect of local turbulence in the earth's atmosphere.
- 1960–65
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