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Definition: Collimation |
CollimationNoun1. The accurate adjustment of the line of sight of a telescope. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Collimation \Col`li*ma"tion\, noun. [Compare to the French expression collimation, from false reading (collimare) for Latin collineare to direct in straight line; col- linea line. Compare to Collineation.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | The process of rendering and maintaining an electron beam parallel within a stated cross-section along a stated length. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Alignment axially of parts of an optical system. Collimation error is due to the line of sight of a survey instrument not coinciding with traversing gear, scales, or leveling devices. The collimation line is the line of sight, passing through the intersection of the crosshairs of the reticule. The collimation method is the height-of-instrument method of leveling whereby fore-and-aft readings are made on a leveling staff by an instrument placed intermediately so that the rise or fall between the fore station and the back station is shown by a change in the staff reading. See also:rise and fall b. Conversion of a divergent beam of energy or particles into a parallelbeam. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Direction | Point of the compass, cardinal points; North East, South, West; N by E, ENE, NE by N, NE; rhumb, azimuth, line of collimation. |
Noun: direction, bearing, course, vector; set, drift, tenor; tendency; incidence; bending, trending; Verb: dip, tack, aim, collimation; steering steerage. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Collimation |
| English words defined with "collimation": Error of collimation ♦ transit instrument. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "collimation": peg adjustment ♦ Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "collimation": Collineation. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Collimating the inner tower at Station Winnie Collimation involved placing the observing instrument directly over the mark Triangulation party of Carl I. Aslakson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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Expressions using "collimation": collimation marks ♦ Error of collimation ♦ line of collimation. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
collimation | 15 |
telescope collimation | 3 |
collimation sct | 3 |
binoculars collimation | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "collimation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kollimation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | collimatie (collimating), elektronenparallelbundeling. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kollimaatio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | collimation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Zielen (aim, aiming, be aimed, be directed, intend, present), Visieren (take aim), Kollimation (collimating), justierung (adjustment, justification, setting, weighting), Einblendung (dubbing on, insertion), Bundelung, Ausblendung (shunt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ρύθμιση της γραμμής σκόπευσης, παραλληλισμόσ (parallelism), ευθυγράμμιση (alineation, alinement, linage, straightening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | párhuzamosítás, kollimáció. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | collimazione (masking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ollimationcay colimação. (various references) коллимирование. (various references) colimacion, colimación (collimating). (various references) kollimation (collimating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "collimation": collimations. (additional references) | |
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"Collimation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Colamartino, collimnation, collmination. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "collimation" (pronounced 'Col`li*ma"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-l-l-m-n-o-o-t" | |
-2 letters: coalition, coitional, collation, cotillion, octillion. | |
-3 letters: amniotic, colonial, comitial, cotillon, illation, location, motional. | |
-4 letters: allicin, amotion, coition, comitia, coolant, intimal, limacon, liminal, maillot, million, moonlit, octanol, oolitic, timolol, tollman. | |
-5 letters: action, alnico, aminic, anomic, atomic, atonic, camion, cation, catlin, citola, clinal, clonal, coital, coloni, intima, italic, latino, limina, limnic, lintol, lotion, maloti, maltol, manioc. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-l-l-m-n-o-o-t" | |
+1 letter: collimations. | |
+2 letters: misallocation, mollification. | |
+3 letters: antialcoholism, misallocations, mollifications, monolithically, terminological. | |
+4 letters: antialcoholisms, anticolonialism, combinatorially, compositionally, monosyllabicity. | |
+5 letters: anticolonialisms, collaborationism, monopolistically, monotheistically, sedimentological, terminologically. | |
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