"collimate" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "text": "I need to collimate my telescope so that the images are clearer."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Martin Mobberley, Lunar and Planetary Webcam User's Guide, page 22",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Stephen Tonkin, Binocular Astronomy, page 69",
          "text": "Binoculars can be collimated by either eccentric rings on the objective lenses or by tilting the prisms with grub screws (set screws).[…]Always collimate binoculars outdoors, or indoors by looking through an open window.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Roberto Ramirez-Iniguez, Sevia M. Idrus, Ziran Sun, Optical Wireless Communications: IR for Wireless Connectivity, page 61",
          "text": "When calculating the size of the spot created on the retina by the lens of the eye when focusing the energy from a collimated source, the eye is generally considered to be ideal and diffraction limited.",
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        "To focus into a narrow beam or column; to adjust a focusing device so that it produces a narrow beam."
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          "focus",
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          "beam",
          "beam"
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          "word": "collimation"
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        {
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "to focus",
          "word": "col·limar"
        },
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to focus",
          "word": "kollimoida"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to focus",
          "word": "kollimieren"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to focus",
          "word": "colimar"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "to focus",
          "word": "hizalamak"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Collimated light"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "collimate"
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  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "text": "I need to collimate my telescope so that the images are clearer."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Martin Mobberley, Lunar and Planetary Webcam User's Guide, page 22",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Stephen Tonkin, Binocular Astronomy, page 69",
          "text": "Binoculars can be collimated by either eccentric rings on the objective lenses or by tilting the prisms with grub screws (set screws).[…]Always collimate binoculars outdoors, or indoors by looking through an open window.",
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        },
        {
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "to focus",
      "word": "col·limar"
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      "sense": "to focus",
      "word": "kollimoida"
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      "sense": "to focus",
      "word": "kollimieren"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "to focus",
      "word": "colimar"
    },
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to focus",
      "word": "hizalamak"
    }
  ],
  "word": "collimate"
}

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