visiplate n.

Finally, when the picture filled the entire visiplate, they arrived at the outermost edge of the galaxy.

Ten enormous supporting forces held the lens of neutronium immovable in the exact center of the upper end; at intervals down the shaft similar forces held variously-shaped lenses and prisms formed from zones of force; in the center of the bottom or floor of the towering structure was the double controlling system, with a universal visiplate facing each operator.

He went straight to his bunk, reached down into the dark space directly beneath it, pulled hard at something metallic, and withdrew a tiny, compact black mechanism, with a little silver visi-plate inset in its exact center. Grant snapped a control-switch to contact, and waited while the small screen swiftly brightened.

Costigan turned away from the absorbing scenes pictured upon the visiplate and faced his two companions.

They had a scanner on it now and by stepping up illumination to the utmost, and magnification to the point where the image was as rough as an old-fashioned half-tone cut, they brought the strange ship to the visiplate as a six-inch miniature.

The visiplates showed the strange space ship clearly, now, even without magnification.

The rest of the ship was cut in by visiplate.

She brought her wrist up and fingernailed the chron on. The tiny visiplate lit up with the time in Galactic Standard.

That nondescript dot of light in the visiplate represented the enemy.

Ellie shrieked, and threw her purse over the visi-plate. ‘Don’t listen to him!’ she ordered Nadine. ‘See if you can find a way of turning this thing off!’