Collimated
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Collimated is a verb meaning simple past and past participle of collimate.
Meaning
simple past and past participle of collimate.
More Meanings
- (physics, of a light beam) Composed of rays that are parallel, thus having a wavefront that is planar.
Example Sentences
Low-mass objects have much more collimated flows than high mass sources.
Closing the aperture results in more collimated light, as only light traveling in the right direction can make it through the smaller opening.
Although the most collimated outflows look very much jet-like at the highest velocities, their behavior is much more classical at lower speeds.
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include paraxial, coplanar, parfocal, planoconvex, planoconcave, complanar.
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