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Collimated vs Colligated - What's the difference?

collimated | colligated |

As verbs the difference between collimated and colligated

is that collimated is (collimate) while colligated is (colligate).

As adjectives the difference between collimated and colligated

is that collimated is (physics|of a light beam) composed of rays that are parallel, thus having a wavefront that is planar while colligated is tied together.

collimated

English

(Collimated light)

Verb

(head)
  • (collimate)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (physics, of a light beam) Composed of rays that are parallel, thus having a wavefront that is planar.
  • * 1984 , Charles J. Lada, Energetic Outflows, Winds and Jets around Young Stars'', M. F. Kessler, J. P. Phillips (editors), ''Galactic and Extragalactic Infrared Spectroscopy , page 266,
  • Low-mass objects have much more collimated flows than high mass sources.
  • * 2008 May, A. M. Soderberg, et al.'', '' An extremely luminous X-ray outburst at the birth of a supernova , Accepted draft, page 3,
  • Wolf-Rayet stars are also argued9 to give rise to gamma-ray bursts, a related but rare class of explosions characterized by highly-collimated relativistic jets.
  • * 2011 , R. Bachiller, M. Tafalla, Bipolar Molecular Outflows'', Charles J. Lada, N.D. Kylafis (editors), ''The Origin of Stars and Planetary Systems , page 240,
  • Although the most collimated outflows look very much jet-like at the highest velocities, their behavior is much more classical at lower speeds.
  • * 2012 , Kurt Demaagd, Anthony Oliver, Nathan Oostendorp, Katherine Scott, Practical Computer Vision with SimpleCV: The Simple Way to Make Technology See , page 222,
  • Closing the aperture results in more collimated light, as only light traveling in the right direction can make it through the smaller opening.

    colligated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (colligate)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • tied together
  • logically connected