Collimator (Noun)
Meaning 1
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.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The telescope was equipped with a collimator that helped to improve the accuracy of the star position measurements.
- Optical engineers carefully aligned the collimator in the spectrograph to ensure precise calibration.
- A collimator was used in the experimental setup to create a parallel beam of light for the interference experiment.
- The astronomer adjusted the collimator on the telescope to compensate for the aberrations caused by the Earth's atmosphere.
- In the laser system, a collimator was used to convert the divergent beam into a collimated beam for precise cutting.
Meaning 2
A small telescope attached to a large telescope to use in setting the line of the larger one.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.