Difference between Parallel and Collimate

What is the difference between Parallel and Collimate?

Parallel as a verb is to construct something parallel to something else. while Collimate as a verb is to focus into a narrow beam or column.

Parallel

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of two or more (straight) lines, (flat) surfaces etc: Equally distant from one another at all points. parallel to: Of one thing, relative to another: Equally distant from at all points.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: With a parallel relationship

Part of speech: noun

Definition: One of a set of parallel lines. A line of latitude. An arrangement of electrical components such that a current flows along two or more paths; see in parallel

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To construct something parallel to something else. Of a path etc: To be parallel to something else. Of a process etc: To be analogous to something else. To compare or liken something to something else.

Example sentence: Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Collimate

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To focus into a narrow beam or column.

We hope you now know whether to use Parallel or Collimate in your sentence.

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