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deformable mirror
  آینه‌ی ِ وادیسیدنی  
âyene-ye vâdisidani
Fr.: miroir déformable  

A very thin mirror whose shape can be changed by the force applied by many small pistons behind the mirror. Such a mirror is used in the → adaptive optics technique to correct the → wavefront affected by the → atmospheric turbulence. See also → tip-tilt mirror.

See also: → deformable; → mirror.