autocollimator
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autocollimator
[¦ȯd·ō′käl·ə‚mād·ər] (optics)
A device by which a single lens collimates diverging light from a slit, and then focuses the light on an exit slit after it has passed through a prism to a mirror and been reflected back through the prism.
A telescope which has a graduated reticle, enabling an observer to read off the angles subtended by distant objects.
A convex mirror at the focus of the principal mirror of a reflecting telescope, which causes light to leave the telescope in a parallel beam.
A telescope equipped with an eyepiece designed for autocollimation.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.