"collimator" in the noun sense
1. collimator
a small telescope attached to a large telescope to use in setting the line of the larger one
2. collimator
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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