Collimator
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
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
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Wordset Dictionary
a small telescope attached to a large telescope to use in setting the line of the larger one
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- plural
- Collimators
- possessive
- Collimator's
- pluralpossessive
- Collimators'