reticule (redirected from reticules)

ret·i·cule  (rt-kyl)

n.

1. A drawstring handbag or purse.

2. A reticle.

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[French réticule, from Latin rticulum, diminutive of rte, net.]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	reticule - a woman's drawstring handbag; usually made of net or beading or brocade; used in 18th and 19th centuries handbag, purse, bag, pocketbook - a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women); "she reached into her bag and found a comb"
	2.	reticule - a network of fine lines, dots, cross hairs, or wires in the focal plane of the eyepiece of an optical instrument graticule, reticle cross hair, cross wire - either of two fine mutually perpendicular lines that cross in the focus plane of an optical instrument and are use for sighting or calibration; "he had the target in his cross hairs" eyepiece, ocular - combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments network - a system of intersecting lines or channels; "a railroad network"; "a network of canals"