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Collimate

//ˈkɒlɪmeɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument) wordnet
  3. 3
    make or place parallel to something wordnet

Etymology

First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin collimātus, perfect passive participle of collīmō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), itself originating from a misreading of collīniō, collīneō.

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