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COLLIMATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The accurate adjustment of the line of sight of a telescope
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("collimation" is a kind of...):
adjustment; readjustment; registration (the act of adjusting something to match a standard)
Derivation:
collimate (adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument))