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
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
Our observations therefore independently confirm the collimated nature of GRB outflows28.
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
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
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
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
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 Simon Newcomb
