Usually means: Beam of light parallel rays.
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  1. collimated: Merriam-Webster
  2. collimated: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Collimated, collimated: Dictionary.com
  7. Collimated: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Collimated: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Collimated: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. collimated: FreeDictionary.org
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  1. collimated: Encyclopedia

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  1. collimated: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. collimated: Medical dictionary

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▸ adjective:  (physics, of a light beam) Composed of rays that are parallel, thus having a wavefront that is planar.

Similar:
parallel, paraxial, coplanar, parfocal, planoconvex, planoconcave, complanar, monoplanar, uniplanar, parafocal, more...

Opposite:
divergent, scattered, unfocused

Types:
laser, light, sound, radio, microwave, x-ray, gamma ray, neutrino, more...

Phrases:
Collimated beam, collimated light, more...

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Similar:
parallel, paraxial, coplanar, parfocal, planoconvex, planoconcave, complanar, monoplanar, uniplanar, parafocal, more...

Opposite:
divergent, scattered, unfocused

Types:
laser, light, sound, radio, microwave, x-ray, gamma ray, neutrino, more...

Phrases:
Collimated beam, collimated light, more...



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