Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Correcting inaccurate adjustment in the line of sight of a telescope; making parallel.
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- verb Present participle of
collimate . - adjective That
collimates , or employscollimation
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Examples
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No disasters, but there was apparently a tiny glitch with one of the collimating magnets, which has now been fixed.
Live-Blogging the LHC Startup! Sean 2008
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You only have this stock, uncomprehending “answer”, you have absolutely no means of discussing how clouds of gas collapse upon themselves, produce intricate and varied magnetic patterns, actually produce the gold, iron, and sulfur gold and pyrite out of hydrogen and helium, and sometimes end up with magnetic forces collimating jets of gas and producing narrow beams of photons.
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The first comes directly after the collimating lens and makes all the light circularly polarized.
Archive 2004-04-01 John 2004
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Light which enters the collimating lens partly passes through the prisms and is partly reflected from the first surface of the prism; that we utilize, thus giving a second shadow.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 Various
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The improvement in the quadrant, commonly known as Hadley's, had already been made at Philadelphia by Godfrey, in the early part of the last century; and the beautiful invention of the collimating telescope was made at a later period by Rittenhouse, an astronomer of distinguished repute.
The Uses of Astronomy An Oration Delivered at Albany on the 28th of July, 1856 Edward Everett 1829
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Spectral transmission of the lens was measured using an incandescent light source, a set of collimating lenses (D), a flip-in mirror
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Line Kessel et al. 2010
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Devices without optics are supplied with a glass window, allowing the designer to utilise proprietary collimating or other application-specific optics to take full advantage of the undistorted beam.
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The unique feature of this rifle is that it is fitted with a collimating day sight and its is possible to fire the rifle with a night sight.
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'In our case, the metamaterial serves a dual function: strongly confining the THz light emerging from the device to the laser facet and collimating the beam,' said Nanfang Yu, postdoctoral fellow at Harvard.
The Engineer - News 2010
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The methods to combat this involve reshaping using lenses and collimating using mirrors.
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