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collimate

[kol-uh-mayt] / ˈkɒl əˌmeɪt /




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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

The collimated outflow produces the radio waves, while the disk of gas surrounding the black hole emits X-rays.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 21, 2024

Alternatively, the low-luminosity γ-ray transient may not trace the prompt GRB emission, but come from a broader collimated, mildly relativistic cocoon29.

From Nature ● Oct. 15, 2017

A bright white light under water is collimated and directed upon a prism.

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

The γ rays are collimated in such a manner that only 1.00% of them strike the patient.

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

Light which enters the collimating lens partly passes through the prisms and is partly reflected from the first surface of the prism; that we utilize, thus giving a second shadow.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 by Various

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 Maria Mitchell

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 W. de W. Abney

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 W. de W. Abney


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