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collimating

collimating is the present participle and gerund 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.

Adjective

collimating (comparative more collimating, superlative most collimating)

  1. That collimates, or employs collimation

Forms of collimating

comparativemore collimating
superlativemost collimating

Words formed from collimating

  • collimating lens

Questions about collimating

What does collimating mean?
Collimating means that collimates, or employs collimation.
What is collimating the present participle and gerund of?
Collimating is the present participle and gerund of collimate.
What part of speech is collimating?
Collimating is an adjective.

Words near collimating in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: collimating (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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