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imager

British  
/ ˈɪmɪdʒə /

noun

  1. an electronic device that records images

    a thermal imager

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The Multiscale Aperture Synthesis Imager points to a new direction for optical imaging.

From Science Daily • Jan. 10, 2026

The satellite’s Lightning Imager has four cameras, each with five lenses.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2023

The men used a donated device called a Zoller & Fröhlich Imager 5010X, which has two rectangular boxes connected by a high-resolution, rapidly spinning camera in the center.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 13, 2023

To measure its atmosphere, the scientists behind the James Webb Space Telescope used a device called the Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph, which provided the most detailed measures of any exoplanet's atmosphere ever recorded.

From Salon • Sep. 15, 2022

Walsh’s own instrument, the Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager, will look back at Earth and take the first ever picture of the planet’s magnetic field by detecting solar x-rays careening off it.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 8, 2021

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