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Collimating
- verb - adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument)
- make or place parallel to something; "They paralleled the ditch to the highway"
Collimation
- noun - the accurate adjustment of the line of sight of a telescope
Collimators
- noun - a small telescope attached to a large telescope to use in setting the line of the larger one
- optical device consisting of a tube containing a convex achromatic lens at one end and a slit at the other with the slit at the focus of the lens; light rays leave the slit as a parallel beam
Collinsonia
- noun - small genus of perennial erect or spreading aromatic herbs; United States
Colliquable
- - Liable to melt, grow soft, or become fluid.
Collitigant
- - Disputing or wrangling. [Obs.] -- n. One who litigates or wrangles.
Collocating
- verb - group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side
- have a strong tendency to occur side by side; "The words 'new' and 'world' collocate"
Collocation
- noun - a grouping of words in a sentence
- the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors"
Collocution
- - A speaking or conversing together; conference; mutual discourse.
Colloidally
- adverb - in a colloidal manner; "particles were colloidally dispersed in the medium"