"helio" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1874, Verplanck Colvin, Annual Report on the Progress of the Topographical Survey of the Adirondack Wilderness of New York, for the year 1873",
          "text": "A helio or sun-reflecting signal was evidently the desideratum.",
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        {
          "ref": "1925, U.S. Coast, Geodetic Survey, Special Publication - Coast and Geodetic Survey, page 62",
          "text": "A light keeper's duties require him to be alone on a station for days or even weeks at a time, showing a helio to the observer in the afternoon for two or three hours and watching by the signal lamp at night.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, Arthur Laidlaw Allan, J. R. Hollwey, J. H. B. Maynes, Practical Field Surveying and Computations, page 258",
          "text": "On a cloudy but bright day, it is possible to use a helio effectively over moderate distances of about 6 miles. Light keepers should be made aware of this, since they often think that brilliant sun is essential.",
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        "A heliotrope (surveying instrument)."
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  "word": "helio"
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        {
          "ref": "1874, Verplanck Colvin, Annual Report on the Progress of the Topographical Survey of the Adirondack Wilderness of New York, for the year 1873",
          "text": "A helio or sun-reflecting signal was evidently the desideratum.",
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        },
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        },
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          "ref": "1968, Arthur Laidlaw Allan, J. R. Hollwey, J. H. B. Maynes, Practical Field Surveying and Computations, page 258",
          "text": "On a cloudy but bright day, it is possible to use a helio effectively over moderate distances of about 6 miles. Light keepers should be made aware of this, since they often think that brilliant sun is essential.",
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  "word": "helio"
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