'Collimate' definitions:
Definition of 'collimate'
From: WordNet
verb
Make or place parallel to something; "They paralleled the ditch to the highway" [syn: parallel, collimate]
verb
Adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument)
Definition of 'Collimate'
From: GCIDE
- Collimate \Col"li*mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collimated; p. p. & vb. n. Collimating.] [See Collimation.] (Physics & Astron.) To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, as rays of light. [1913 Webster]
- Collimating eyepiece, an eyepiece with a diagonal reflector for illumination, used to determine the error of collimation in a transit instrument by observing the image of a cross wire reflected from mercury, and comparing its position in the field with that of the same wire seen directly.
- Collimating lens (Optics), a lens used for producing parallel rays of light. [1913 Webster]