|
|
Definition of Collimator
1. Noun. A small telescope attached to a large telescope to use in setting the line of the larger one.
2. Noun. 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
1. n. A telescope arranged and used to determine errors of collimation, both vertical and horizontal.
Definition of Collimator
1. Noun. (physics) An optical device that generates a parallel beam of light. Often used to compensate for laser beam divergence. ¹
2. Noun. (physics) A similar device that produces a parallel beam of particles such as neutrons. ¹
3. Noun. (astronomy) A small telescope attached to a larger one, used to point it in the correct general direction ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Collimator
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Collimator
1. A device of high absorption coefficient material used in collimation. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Collimator
Literary usage of Collimator
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1857)
"_____ On a collimator/or completing ike Adjustments of Reflecting Telescopes.
... In general construction the new collimator resembles the telescopes made ..."
2. The Production of Elliptic Interferences in Relation to Interferometry by Carl Barus, Maxwell Barus (1911)
"collimator method.—The objection to the above single-lens methods is the fact
... If lenses at L' and at L are used together, the former as a collimator ..."
3. The Interferometry of Reversed and Non-reversed Spectra by Carl Barus (1919)
"... collimator micrometer (imaged in the ocular) and by it and Ae the corresponding
quantities in case of the plate ocular micrometer, and if F and / be the ..."
4. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1833)
"The Description of a Floating collimator. By Captain Henry Kater, ... The principles
on which the floating collimator is constructed are two : the first is ..."
5. Light from the Land of the Sphinx by Harry Forbes Witherby (1896)
"The collimator consists of a convex lens at the end of a tube, with a vertical slit,
... In both collimator and telescope the distance of the cross-wires, ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"... and are moved in a direction at right angles to the optical axis of the collimator.
Either device, used in conjunction with a heliostat, affords an easy ..."
Other Resources:
