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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
collimate . - adjective of
light beams whose rays are parallel and thus has a planewavefront
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Examples
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The company is talking about using it for specialized applications: The result is a lamp that produces exceptionally high light output and 'collimated' or very focused white light at a much lower cost than current high pressure metal halide sources.
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The company is talking about using it for specialized applications: The result is a lamp that produces exceptionally high light output and 'collimated' or very focused white light at a much lower cost than current high pressure metal halide sources.
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Previous SPRM/SPRF systems using lasers have exhibited good performance utilizing the highly desirable qualities of laser sources such as collimated output, high power and narrow bandwidth
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Rahber Thariani et al. 2010
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In other words, light shining through the atmosphere is a bit diffuse and may not stay collimated.
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Possibly, the shadow is washed out because the clouds are so far away and because the sunlight is not perfectly collimated.
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The particles come from the accretion disk and are collimated into the jets.
World-wide Campaign Sheds New Light on Nature's "LHC" | Universe Today 2010
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The particles come from the accretion disk and are collimated into the jets.
World-wide Campaign Sheds New Light on Nature's "LHC" | Universe Today 2010
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In both pictures, we have a collimated (one-directional) field incident from below upon an aperture in a silver plate (represented in cyan here).
Optics basics: What is a wave? Part III: Diffraction « Skulls in the Stars 2007
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This can be done by friction (heat), twisted magnetic fields and outflows (uncollimated, or collimated; the latter would be jets).
Quasar Caught Building Future Home Galaxy | Universe Today 2009
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I was awed by the sight of a helium neon laser with its glowing discharge tube emitting an intense collimated beam of red laser light that produced an otherworldly speckle pattern.
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