scope vs collimator

collimator vs scope

scope and collimator both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
scope	Yes	No	No	No
collimator	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, collimator is a hyponym of scope; that is, collimator is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than scope:

scope: a magnifier of images of distant objects
collimator: a small telescope attached to a large telescope to use in setting the line of the larger one

Other hyponyms of scope include astronomical telescope, equatorial, solar telescope, transit instrument, photoheliograph.

scope (noun)	collimator (noun)
electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities	optical device consisting of a tube containing a convex achromatic lens at one end and a slit at the other with the slit at the focus of the lens; light rays leave the slit as a parallel beam
a magnifier of images of distant objects	a small telescope attached to a large telescope to use in setting the line of the larger one
an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
the state of the environment in which a situation exists

Difference between scope and collimator

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