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COLLIMATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does collimation mean?
• COLLIMATION (noun)
The noun COLLIMATION has 1 sense:
1. the accurate adjustment of the line of sight of a telescope
Familiarity information: COLLIMATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The accurate adjustment of the line of sight of a telescope
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("collimation" is a kind of...):
adjustment; readjustment; registration (the act of adjusting something to match a standard)
Derivation:
collimate (adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument))
Context examples
Defined as thin section (1-2 mm collimation) CT optimized by using a high-spatial-frequency (bone) algorithm.
(High Resolution Computed Tomography, NCI Thesaurus)
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