collimate
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Dr. Donald Frush, chief of pediatric radiology at the Duke University School of Medicine, said that failing to properly cone, or collimate, the radiation was rare.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2011
The collimated outflow produces the radio waves, while the disk of gas surrounding the black hole emits X-rays.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 21, 2024
High energy collisions of protons often result in production of collimated spray of particles, collected in what is termed as jets, from decay of ordinary quarks or gluons.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2023
Alternatively, the low-luminosity γ-ray transient may not trace the prompt GRB emission, but come from a broader collimated, mildly relativistic cocoon29.
From Nature ● Oct. 15, 2017
The γ rays are collimated in such a manner that only 1.00% of them strike the patient.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
A bright white light under water is collimated and directed upon a prism.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
The collimating lens L₂ is filled by this beam, and the rays issue parallel to one another and fall on the prisms P₁ and P₂, which disperse them.
From Colour Measurement and Mixture by Abney, W. de W.
If the source be a point or a line, and a collimating lens be used, the incident waves may be regarded as plane.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
One slit is a little below the other, the rays being reflected to the collimating lens L, by means of two right-angled prisms P, and two spectra are formed, one above the other.
From Colour Measurement and Mixture by Abney, W. de W.
I took out the little collimating screws first, then I drew out the tube, and in that I found a brass plate screwed on the diaphragm which contained the lines.
From Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals by Mitchell, Maria
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.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 by Various
