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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 telescopeplay

  Familiarity information: COLLIMATION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COLLIMATION (noun)


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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