Crossword clues for collimate
collimate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Collimate \Col"li*mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collimated; p. p. & vb. n. Collimating.] [See Collimation.] (Physics & Astron.) To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, as rays of light.
Collimating eyepiece, an eyepiece with a diagonal reflector for illumination, used to determine the error of collimation in a transit instrument by observing the image of a cross wire reflected from mercury, and comparing its position in the field with that of the same wire seen directly.
Collimating lens (Optics), a lens used for producing parallel rays of light.
Wiktionary
vb. To focus into a narrow beam or column; to adjust a focusing device so that it produces a narrow beam.
WordNet
v. make or place parallel to something; "They paralleled the ditch to the highway" [syn: parallel]
adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument)
Usage examples of "collimate".
I took out the little collimating screws first, then I drew out the tube, and in that I found a brass plate screwed on the diaphragm which contained the lines.
True, they could collimate the received flashes and send them into the Depression, but that would be futile.
It was necessary to lower the power, wait out the diminishing tremors, and re-aim the collimated lasers at the mirror-stern of the ship.
And a collimated radio beam aimed into a vortex can lance through the disturbances and reach from one starfield into another.
Donors locked into Digen's system, shielding him from wild sensory inputs, collimating his inner flows, until the locked muscles began to melt loose and he drew a shuddering breath.
The beam isn’t all that well collimated and there’s a hell of a lot of leakage.
She was finding the collimated gravity beam difficult to control even with computer-automated assistance and Larry to backstop her.
The broadcast was focused and collimated to appear in the cloudy sky of the planet, where it would be in view (confined to the central surface of the cloud-screens) over each continent, day and night.
It, too, collimated down as tightly as it would manage, and the two of them went to work.
By varying the amperage and frequency of the electric charge, I can also vary the properties of the collimated material.
In the nearby volume of space, collimated beams of accelerated matter were traveling in the same relativistic frame as Yggdrasil and shedding some of their radiation in the visible part of the spectrum.
The particles were gripped by a magnetic field and steered by the Lorentz force to emerge from the back of the rocket as a precisely collimated beam.