What is the meaning of collimator?

noun

  • A small telescope attached to a large telescope to use in setting the line of the larger one.
  • 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. .
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