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  • English Word Colligation Definition A binding together.
  • English Word Colligation Definition That process by which a number of isolated facts are brought under one conception, or summed up in a general proposition, as when Kepler discovered that the various observed positions of the planet Mars were points in an ellipse.
  • English Word Collimate Definition 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.
  • English Word Collimated Definition of Collimate
  • English Word Collimating Definition of Collimate
  • English Word Collimation Definition The act of collimating; the adjustment of the line of the sights, as the axial line of the telescope of an instrument, into its proper position relative to the other parts of the instrument.
  • English Word Collimator Definition A telescope arranged and used to determine errors of collimation, both vertical and horizontal.
  • English Word Collimator Definition A tube having a convex lens at one end and at the other a small opening or slit which is at the principal focus of the lens, used for producing a beam of parallel rays; also, a lens so used.
  • English Word Collin Definition A very pure form of gelatin.
  • English Word Colline Definition A small hill or mount.
  • English Word Collineation Definition The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object.
  • English Word Colling Definition An embrace; dalliance.
  • English Word Collingly Definition With embraces.
  • English Word Collingual Definition Having, or pertaining to, the same language.
  • English Word Colliquable Definition Liable to melt, grow soft, or become fluid.
  • English Word Colliquament Definition The first rudiments of an embryo in generation.
  • English Word Colliquate Definition To change from solid to fluid; to make or become liquid; to melt.
  • English Word Colliquated Definition of Colliquate
  • English Word Colliquating Definition of Colliquate
  • English Word Colliquation Definition A melting together; the act of melting; fusion.
  • English Word Colliquation Definition A processive wasting or melting away of the solid parts of the animal system with copious excretions of liquids by one or more passages.
  • English Word Colliquative Definition Causing rapid waste or exhaustion; melting; as, colliquative sweats.
  • English Word Colliquefaction Definition A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion.
  • English Word Collish Definition A tool to polish the edge of a sole.
  • English Word Collision Definition The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.
  • English Word Collision Definition A state of opposition; antagonism; interference.
  • English Word Collisive Definition Colliding; clashing.
  • English Word Collitigant Definition Disputing or wrangling.
  • English Word Collitigant Definition One who litigates or wrangles.
  • English Word Collocate Definition Set; placed.