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# How to pronounce "collimating" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/kɒllɪmætɪng/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **col·li·ma·ting**
- **Parts of Speech**: verb, adjective
- **VERB**: present participle and gerund of collimate
- **ADJECTIVE**: That collimates, or employs collimation

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (6 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "collimating" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "Right now I'm blocking it, so it is a beam block. And these are collimating lens. So here it should be the planar equivalent of the incoherent side."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 2:21](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcqPRPkyWPU&t=141s)

### Example 2
> "This is simply collimating the illumination so you get a uniform image at the image plane."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 28:33](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcqPRPkyWPU&t=1713s)

### Example 3
> "in radio follow-up of gravitational wave events collimating in the first detection of radio emission from a"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 6:37](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uucGqHkCQE0&t=397s)

### Example 4
> "and you produce some silver atoms that come out as a gas, a collimating slit."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 65:59](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX9769eQV24&t=3959s)

### Example 5
> "One might envision, for instance, increasing the distance between the light source and the actual sample, or the optical path length between the collimating mirror and the sample."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 14:14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLcDbHI5KGU&t=854s)

### Example 6
> "This component here is an iris, control the diameter of this spherical wave, and this element here is my collimating lens"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:50](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcqPRPkyWPU&t=110s)


## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "collimating" correctly?
"collimating" is pronounced `/kɒllɪmætɪng/`. Syllable breakdown: **col·li·ma·ting**.

### What does "collimating" mean in context?
present participle and gerund of collimate

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