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

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.