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Collimator

Collimator Meaning & Definition
Collimator Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Collimator?

[n] optical device consisting of a tube containing a convex achromatic lens at one end and a slit at the other with the slit at the focus of the lens; light rays leave the slit as a parallel beam
[n] a small telescope attached to a large telescope to use in setting the line of the larger one

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See Also | optical device | prism spectroscope | scope | spectroscope | telescope

Collimator In Webster's Dictionary

\Col"li*ma`tor\, n. 1. (Astron.) A telescope arranged and used to determine errors of collimation, both vertical and horizontal. --Nichol. 2. (Optics) A tube having a convex lens at one end and at the other a small opening or slit which is at the principal focus of the lens, used for producing a beam of parallel rays; also, a lens so used.

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