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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 col·li·mate /ˈkɑləˌmet/
 (vt.)照准,瞄準,使成平行

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 col·li·mate /ˈkɑləˌmet/ 及物動詞
 准直,使成平行,對準,校準

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Col·li·mate v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collimated; p. p. & vb. n. Collimating.]  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.
 Collimating eyepiece, an eyepiece with a diagonal reflector for illumination, used to determine the error of collimation in a transit instrument by observing the image of a cross wire reflected from mercury, and comparing its position in the field with that of the same wire seen directly.
 Collimating lens Optics, a lens used for producing parallel rays of light.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

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