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A device that directs a beam into a narrower or more nearly parallel arrangement.
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- optical collimator
- radiation collimator
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The collimator narrowed the beam before exposure.
A damaged collimator distorted the outgoing light.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular collimator; plural collimators. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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