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OPTICAL COLLIMATOR [6 records]

Record 1 - external organization data 2021-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
OBS

optical collimator : an item in the "Optical Tools and Equipment" class of the "Tools and Equipment for Science and Technology" category.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
OBS

lunette de centrage : objet de la classe «Outils et équipement optiques» de la catégorie «Outillage et équipement pour les sciences et la technologie».

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Instruments
  • Measuring Instruments
DEF

A telescope so mounted that its collimation axis can be made to coincide with the vertical(or direction of the plumb line). The vertical collimator serves as an optical plumb line; it may be designed for use... in centering an instrument on a high tower directly over a mark on the ground.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments scientifiques
  • Appareils de mesure
DEF

Lunette coudée solidaire d'un instrument d'observation, l'axe de l'objectif coïncidant avec l'axe principal de l'instrument et permettant de centrer cet instrument avec une grande précision.

Spanish

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Record 3 2005-12-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Optics
  • Surveying Instruments
  • Remote Sensing
DEF

An instrument which produces parallel rays of light.

OBS

A collimator usually consists of a tube having an objective converging lens with an arrangement of cross hairs placed in the plane of its principal focus. It is used in testing and adjusting certain optical surveying instruments.

OBS

collimator: term officially approved by the RADARSAT-2 Terminology Approval Group (RTAG).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Optique
  • Instruments d'arpentage
  • Télédétection
DEF

Appareil lenticulaire de visée portant deux lignes de foi (perpendiculaires) et permettant le pointage rapide (souvent à l'infini) d'un appareil d'observation.

OBS

collimateur : terme uniformisé par le Groupe de travail de terminologie de l'Artillerie royale canadienne par le Comité de terminologie française de doctrine et de tactique de l'Armée de terre et par le Groupe de travail de la terminologie de RADARSAT-2 (GTTR).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Óptica
  • Instrumentos de agrimensura
  • Teledetección
DEF

Instrumento óptico que produce rayos paralelos de luz.

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Record 4 2005-04-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Optical Instruments
  • Small Arms
DEF

Any of a variety of devices, mechanical or optical, designed to assist in aiming a firearm.

OBS

Sights are classified under four general categories : open sights, aperture sights, optical sights, and collimator or lensatic sights.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments d'optique
  • Armes légères
DEF

Dispositif mécanique ou optique conçu pour effectuer la visée d'une arme à feu.

OBS

Ils sont classés selon quatre types généraux, soit : à cran de mire, à oeilleton, les lunettes de tir et les viseurs.

OBS

dispositif de visée : terme et définition uniformisés par le Groupe de travail de terminologie des armes légères; terme uniformisé par le Comité de terminologie française du Conseil de doctrine et de tactique de l'Armée de terre.

Spanish

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Record 5 2003-08-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Research Experiments in Space
CONT

The Rocket Assembly/Checkout Facility... The facility consists of six contiguous laboratory modules subdivided into a storage area, a gray room area, and a clean room. The storage area houses spare instrument components and intermittently used ground support equipment. The gray room area contains facilities to clean components before they enter the clean room and equipment used to ship the instrument to WSMR [White Sands Mission Range]. The Class 100 cross-flow clean room is separated from the gray room by an air shower. The clean room contains three major stations : a clean bench for assembly of subsystems; a 12x14-ft optical bench for instrument assembly and electronic test of the instrument subsystems; and a vacuum chamber for vacuum focus and spectroradiometric calibration. The cryogenically pumped vacuum chamber is designed with a 30-cm diameter ultraviolet collimator at one end and a roll-off section that accommodates the entire flight instrument centered in the collimated beam at the other end.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Travaux de recherche dans l'espace

Spanish

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Record 6 2002-06-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Spacecraft
CONT

Optical Head(OH). The OH is typically located outside the spacecraft and performs the critical functions of generating and pointing the transmit laser beam and acquiring and tracking the received beacon and receive laser beams. Major elements of the OH are :-Coarse pointing assembly used for steering the terminal line of sight.-Optical subsystem comprising telescope, optical bench and beacon collimator.-Fine pointing assembly(FPA) : This is a mechanism used in conjunction with the tracking sensor to provide the tracking function for the terminal.-Point ahead assembly(PAA) : This is similar to the FPA and is used to introduce the required point ahead offset to the transmit beam.-Acquisition sensor(AS) : This is a wide field of view sensor used during acquisition for the identification and location of the partner terminal.-Tracking sensor(TS) : This is a fast sensor that operates in a closed loop with the FPA.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Engins spatiaux

Spanish

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