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Noun: collimator  'kó-lu,mey-tu(r)
  1. A small telescope attached to a large telescope to use in setting the line of the larger one
     
  2. 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

Derived forms: collimators

Type of: optical device, scope, telescope

Part of: prism spectroscope, spectroscope

Encyclopedia: Collimator

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