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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: make or place parallel to something; "They paralleled the ditch to the highway" [syn: parallel, collimate]
2: adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument)

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-mated; -mating) Etymology: Latin collimatus, past participle of collimare, manuscript variant of collineare to make straight, from com- + linea line Date: 1878 to make (as light rays) parallel • collimation noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. 1 adjust the line of sight of (a telescope etc.). 2 make (telescopes or rays) accurately parallel. Derivatives: collimation n. Etymology: L collimare, erron. for collineare align (as COM-, linea line)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Collimate Col"li*mate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collimated; p. p. & vb. n. Collimating.] [See Collimation.] (Physics & Astron.) To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, as rays of light.