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Collimated vs Collimate - What's the difference?

collimated | collimate |

As verbs the difference between collimated and collimate

is that collimated is past tense of collimate while collimate is to focus into a narrow beam or column; to adjust a focusing device so that it produces a narrow beam.

As an adjective collimated

is composed of rays that are parallel, thus having a wavefront that is planar.

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.

    collimate

    English

    (Collimated light)

    Verb

    (collimat)
  • To focus into a narrow beam or column; to adjust a focusing device so that it produces a narrow beam.
    • 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.
    I need to collimate my telescope so that the images are clearer.
  • * 2006 , Martin Mobberley, Lunar and Planetary Webcam User's Guide , page 22,
    • However, after a bit of experience, the collimating' chore can become routine.Of course, if manufacturers made telescopes whose optics did not move around, you would only have to ' collimate a telescope once.
  • * 2007 , Stephen Tonkin, Binocular Astronomy , page 69,
    • Binoculars can be collimated' by either eccentric rings on the objective lenses or by tilting the prisms with grub screws (set screws).Always ' collimate binoculars outdoors, or indoors by looking through an open window.
  • * 2008 , Roberto Ramirez-Iniguez, Sevia M. Idrus, Ziran Sun, Optical Wireless Communications: IR for Wireless Connectivity , page 61,
    • When calculating the size of the spot created on the retina by the lens of the eye when focusing the energy from a collimated source, the eye is generally considered to be ideal and diffraction limited.