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v. To make parallel; line up.

v. To adjust the line of sight of (an optical device).

v. To focus into a narrow beam or column.

v. 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.

To bring into the same line, as the axes of two lenses or the telescope of an optical instrument; also, to make parallel, as the rays of light passing through a lens.

To render the line passing through the optical center of the object-glass of a telescope and the middle wire of its reticule strictly perpendicular (or sometimes parallel) to the axis on which the telescope turns: usually by the aid of a collimator, or of star-observations in reversed positions of the instrument.

v. make or place parallel to something

v. adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument)

"A slight vacuum is pulled behind an aluminized mylar plastic film to create a very large convex mirror to collimate the visual system in many aircraft simulators."

collimated    collimates    collimating   

change    modify    alter    align    adjust    line-up    aline   

collimated    collimating   

align