collimate
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Dr. Donald Frush, chief of pediatric radiology at the Duke University School of Medicine, said that failing to properly cone, or collimate, the radiation was rare.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2011
As the black hole spins, matter can escape in the form of narrow jets called collimated outflows.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 21, 2024
High energy collisions of protons often result in production of collimated spray of particles, collected in what is termed as jets, from decay of ordinary quarks or gluons.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2023
The result is an intense beam of collimated, or parallel, rays of electromagnetic radiation.
From Nature ● Jan. 8, 2019
The γ rays are collimated in such a manner that only 1.00% of them strike the patient.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
A bright white light under water is collimated and directed upon a prism.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
One slit is a little below the other, the rays being reflected to the collimating lens L, by means of two right-angled prisms P, and two spectra are formed, one above the other.
From Colour Measurement and Mixture by Abney, W. de W.
If the source be a point or a line, and a collimating lens be used, the incident waves may be regarded as plane.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
The collimating lens L₂ is filled by this beam, and the rays issue parallel to one another and fall on the prisms P₁ and P₂, which disperse them.
From Colour Measurement and Mixture by Abney, W. de W.
In addition to the observations which he has left us, he was the first inventor or proposer of the collimating telescope, an instrument which has become almost a necessity wherever accurate observations are made.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Newcomb, Simon
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.
From Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals by Mitchell, Maria
