parabolic mirror

collocation in English

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parabolic
adjective
uk
/ˌpær.əˈbɒl.ɪk/us
/ˌper.əˈbɑː.lɪk/
having a type of curve like that made by an object that is thrown up in the air and falls to the ground in a ...
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mirror
noun
uk
/ˈmɪr.ər/us
/ˈmɪr.ɚ/
a piece of glass with a shiny, metal-covered back that reflects light, producing an image of whatever is in front ...
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However, ourparabolicmirrorpossesses considerable aberrations and the laser radiation wavefront differs considerably from the plane wavefront.
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Radiation focused by a microobjective with the help of aparabolicmirrormust be transformed to a 280-mm-diameter beam with a plane wavefront.
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Polyvinylidene chloride film is put in front of theparabolicmirroras a protection against ablated debris from the copper target.
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Stokes radiation amplified during the backward pass through a system of amplifiers is focused by theparabolicmirrorto a diffraction-limited spot.
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Measurement of theparabolicmirroraberrations compensation and determination of a real dimension of the high-power spot in the focal plane of the parabola required development of special methods.
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The receiver is a tube positioned right above the middle of theparabolicmirrorand is filled with a working fluid.
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The receiver is a tube positioned directly above the middle of theparabolicmirrorand filled with a working fluid.
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It featured a small 12-volt bulb reflected by a largeparabolicmirror.
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A fixedparabolicmirrorcreates a variously shaped image of the sun as it moves across the sky.
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In 1835, rapeseed oil replaced the coal and the lighthouse was fitted with aparabolicmirror.
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Theparabolicmirrorreflects parallel light rays entering the telescope to its focus, which is also the focus of the hyperbolic mirror.
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The receiver was aparabolicmirrorwith selenium cells at its focal point.
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This may be achieved by using aparabolicmirror.
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Using aparabolicmirror, he would hang contrasting pairs of painted shapes, which rotated freely.
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The resulting system has less coma than a reflecting telescope with aparabolicmirror(which is free of spherical aberration but not free of coma).
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In industrial cases aparabolicmirrorcan concentrate sunlight on the tube.
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A secondparabolicmirrorthen collects the diffracted rays at a certain angle and creates an image on a detector.
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These were mostly of 60 inch (152.4 cm) diameter with rhodium platedparabolicmirror, reflecting a carbon arc discharge.
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It uses a spherical rather than aparabolicmirrorwith 0.6 m correcting plate to achieve this.
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