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Definitions
adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument)
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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