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clinostat
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clinostat, n. [Gr. to incline + to make to stand.].
An apparatus consisting of a slowly revolving disk, usually regulated by clockwork, by means of wich the action of external agents, as light and gravity, on growing plants may be regulated or eliminated. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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