Associations to the word «Collimate»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

COLLIMATE, verb. Make or place parallel to something; "They paralleled the ditch to the highway".
COLLIMATE, verb. Adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument).

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne