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Definition of 'collimator'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) collimator
a fixed telescope for use in collimating other instruments.

2. collimator
an optical system that transmits parallel rays of light.

3. collimator
a device for producing a particle beam in which all the particle paths are parallel.

Etymology: (1815–25)

Definition of 'collimator'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) collimator
a small telescope attached to a large telescope to use in setting the line of the larger one

2. (noun) collimator
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

Definition of 'collimator'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) collimator
a telescope arranged and used to determine errors of collimation, both vertical and horizontal

2. (noun) collimator
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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