collimate

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb 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.

Similar words

parallel align focus collineate focalize concentre concentrate columnize condense lock in

Often followed by

the to and a light or

Word family

collimated collimates collimating collimation collimations