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collimates

collimates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of collimate.

Meaning of collimate

Verb

collimate (third-person singular simple present collimates, present participle collimating, simple past and past participle collimated)

  1. To focus into a narrow beam or column; to adjust a focusing device so that it produces a narrow beam.
    • Lead bricks were placed around the radioactive source so that the escaping gamma rays would be limited to a collimated beam rather than filling the lab.

Questions about collimates

What is collimates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Collimates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of collimate.

Words near collimates in the dictionary

  1. colligible
  2. collignoniceratid
  3. collignoniceratids
  4. collimate
  5. collimated
  6. collimates
  7. collimating
  8. collimation
  9. collimations
  10. collimator
  11. collimators

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Adapted from Wiktionary: collimates (page history and authors); collimate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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