collimated

Composed of rays that are parallel, thus having a wavefront that is planar.

Adjective

  1. Composed of rays that are parallel, thus having a wavefront that is planar.
    • Low-mass objects have much more collimated flows than high mass sources. - 1984, Charles J. Lada, “Energetic Outflows, Winds and Jets around Young Stars”, in M. F. Kessler, J. P. Phillips, editors, Galactic and...
    • 2008 May, A. M. Soderberg, et al., An extremely luminous X-ray outburst at the birth of a supernova, Accepted draft, page 3, Wolf-Rayet stars are also argued⁹ to give rise to gamma-ray bursts, a related but rare class...
    • Although the most collimated outflows look very much jet-like at the highest velocities, their behavior is much more classical at lower speeds. - 2011, R. Bachiller, M. Tafalla, “Bipolar Molecular Outflows”, in Charles...

Forms

more collimated most collimated

Derived

noncollimated uncollimated

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of collimate