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
However, Sgr A* currently has limited nearby matter, so the black hole has been relatively quiet, with weakly collimated outflows, in recent millennia.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 21, 2024
As the black hole spins, matter can escape in the form of narrow jets called collimated outflows.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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