collimate
Verb
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Verb
collimate (collimates, present participle collimating; past and past participle collimated)
- To focus into a narrow beam or column; to adjust a focusing device so that it produces a narrow beam.
- Lead bricks were placed around the radioactive source so that the escaping gamma rays would be limited to a collimated beam rather than filling the lab.
- I need to collimate my telescope so that the images are clearer.
- 2006, Martin Mobberley, Lunar and Planetary Webcam User's Guide, page 22 ↗,
- However, after a bit of experience, the collimating chore can become routine. […] Of course, if manufacturers made telescopes whose optics did not move around, you would only have to collimate a telescope once.
- 2007, Stephen Tonkin, Binocular Astronomy, page 69 ↗,
- Binoculars can be collimated by either eccentric rings on the objective lenses or by tilting the prisms with grub screws (set screws). […] Always collimate binoculars outdoors, or indoors by looking through an open window.
- 2008, Roberto Ramirez-Iniguez, Sevia M. Idrus, Ziran Sun, Optical Wireless Communications: IR for Wireless Connectivity, page 61 ↗,
- When calculating the size of the spot created on the retina by the lens of the eye when focusing the energy from a collimated source, the eye is generally considered to be ideal and diffraction limited.
- collimation
- decollimation
- collimator
- German: kollimieren
- Spanish: colimar
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