Dictionary Check: collimator

"collimator" is a valid word!

Scrabble 14 points
Words with Friends 18 points

Definition

noun

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

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

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