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
(context physics of a light beam English) Composed of rays that are parallel, thus having a wavefront that is planar. v
(en-past of: collimate)
Usage examples of "collimated".
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.
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.