Usually means: Align rays into parallel beams.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. collimate: Merriam-Webster
  2. collimate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. collimate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. collimate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. collimate: Vocabulary.com
  6. collimate: Wordnik
  7. collimate: Wiktionary
  8. collimate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. collimate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. collimate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. collimate: Dictionary.com
  12. Collimate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. collimate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. collimate: Rhymezone
  15. Collimate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. collimate: FreeDictionary.org
  17. collimate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. collimate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Collimate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. collimate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. collimate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. collimate: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Collimate: Extragalactic Astronomy

(Note: See collimated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (collimate)

verb:  To focus into a narrow beam or column; to adjust a focusing device so that it produces a narrow beam.

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