Autocollimator
an instrument combining the functions of a telescope and collimator, for detecting and measuring very small deviations in a beam of light.
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a feature of a word processor, email program, web browser, etc., that automatically predicts the remaining characters in a word or phrase based on what has been typed or input before: If you supply the information, your browser will be able to use autocomplete to fill out online forms. to complete (a sequence of characters), […]
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- Autocorrelation
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