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collimate
Verb
1 make or place parallel to something; "They paralleled the ditch to the highway" [syn:
parallel
]
2 adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument)
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English
Verb
To
focus
into a narrow
beam
or column.
Lead bricks were placed around the radioactive source so that the escaping gamma rays would be limited to a collimated beam rather than filling the lab.
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