Usually means: Making light rays parallel uniformly.
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  1. collimating: Merriam-Webster
  2. collimating: Collins English Dictionary
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  4. collimating: Wordnik
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  6. Collimating, collimating: Dictionary.com
  7. Collimating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Collimating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. collimating: FreeDictionary.org
  10. collimating: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. collimating: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. collimating: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. collimating: Medical dictionary

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▸ adjective:  That collimates, or employs collimation

Similar:
parallel, collatable, colluding, colligated, colleted, colluviated, capsulating, compressive, cleaving, connivent, more...

Opposite:
diverging, scattering, spreading

Types:
beam, lens, mirror, prism, reflector, more...

Phrases:
collimating lens, collimating eyepiece, more...

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Similar:
parallel, collatable, colluding, colligated, colleted, colluviated, capsulating, compressive, cleaving, connivent, more...

Opposite:
diverging, scattering, spreading

Types:
beam, lens, mirror, prism, reflector, more...

Phrases:
collimating lens, collimating eyepiece, more...



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