Collimating

Word COLLIMATING
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Definitions and meanings of "Collimating"

What do we mean by collimating?

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

Saying a terrible idea that makes no sense, but yet it makes perfect sense to you. Before you actually shared this idea with another person, you thought you were a genius, but it turns out you're still a moron. Urban Dictionary

A lens which focuses light rays from a source into parallel paths, thus focusing the image relayed at infinity. Highly useful in Head-Up-Display systems, for obvious reasons. Urban Dictionary

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The word "collimating" in example sentences

No disasters, but there was apparently a tiny glitch with one of the collimating magnets, which has now been fixed. ❋ Sean (2008)

You only have this stock, uncomprehending “answer”, you have absolutely no means of discussing how clouds of gas collapse upon themselves, produce intricate and varied magnetic patterns, actually produce the gold, iron, and sulfur gold and pyrite out of hydrogen and helium, and sometimes end up with magnetic forces collimating jets of gas and producing narrow beams of photons. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The first comes directly after the collimating lens and makes all the light circularly polarized. ❋ John (2004)

Light which enters the collimating lens partly passes through the prisms and is partly reflected from the first surface of the prism; that we utilize, thus giving a second shadow. ❋ Various (N/A)

The improvement in the quadrant, commonly known as Hadley's, had already been made at Philadelphia by Godfrey, in the early part of the last century; and the beautiful invention of the collimating telescope was made at a later period by Rittenhouse, an astronomer of distinguished repute. ❋ Edward Everett (1829)

The unique feature of this rifle is that it is fitted with a collimating day sight and its is possible to fire the rifle with a night sight. ❋ Unknown (2010)

'In our case, the metamaterial serves a dual function: strongly confining the THz light emerging from the device to the laser facet and collimating the beam,' said Nanfang Yu, postdoctoral fellow at Harvard. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Spectral transmission of the lens was measured using an incandescent light source, a set of collimating lenses (D), a flip-in mirror ❋ Line Kessel Et Al. (2010)

Devices without optics are supplied with a glass window, allowing the designer to utilise proprietary collimating or other application-specific optics to take full advantage of the undistorted beam. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The methods to combat this involve reshaping using lenses and collimating using mirrors. ❋ Unknown (2009)

With the new M2 Encore, Redrock claims just a 1 / 2 stop light loss, new image flip unit, collimating lens mount, completely redesigned interior and optics for edge sharpness, and an improved spinning ground glass allowing shutter speeds upwards of 1 / 500 without grain. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Anteryon's aspheres are the ideal choice for collimating or focussing the light of a laser diode. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This allows the board to accept off-the-shelf collimating lenses and be fit onto a low cost CPU heat sink. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We can measure the vertical position of the particle traversing the apparatus if the first diaphragm, the one containing the single collimating slit, is firmly bolted to the lab bench. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Fraser: So the collimating is turning those little screws that will be on the telescope to make it so the optics are all lined up properly. ❋ Unknown (2008)

So you want help collimating it, and you want someone to teach you those two different skills of aligning your telescope and aligning your telescope on the north star. ❋ Unknown (2008)

You: "I'm about to [collim]" Person: "Dude, it's like midnight, please don't do this again" You: "Okay, so like... you know how corpses can be used as [fertilizer]? What if that corpse fertilizer was used on plants for people to eat. So, a woman eats the plants that used the corpse fertilizer, so she now has the DNA of that human in her. Then, if she has a baby, that might also have the DNA of that human, which could possibly leave traces of a [past life's] memory. That could explain how reincarnation could possibly exist." Person: "Go to sleep." ❋ Tolnin (2019)

This will be the 2nd in my series of largely useless technical jargon, which will continue as it is more fun writing this than writing a report on the performance and [aerodynamics] of an [MAV]. -For more amusing and less [contrived] definitions, look up my ones for France or Europe. They're OK. ❋ Victorhadin (2003)

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