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Colligating
- verb - consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle
- make a logical or causal connection; "I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind"; "colligate these facts"; "I cannot relate these events at all"
Colligation
- noun - the connection of isolated facts by a general hypothesis
- the state of being joined together
Collimating
- verb - adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument)
- make or place parallel to something; "They paralleled the ditch to the highway"
Collimation
- noun - the accurate adjustment of the line of sight of a telescope
Collimators
- noun - a small telescope attached to a large telescope to use in setting the line of the larger one
- optical device consisting of a tube containing a convex achromatic lens at one end and a slit at the other with the slit at the focus of the lens; light rays leave the slit as a parallel beam
Collinsonia
- noun - small genus of perennial erect or spreading aromatic herbs; United States
Colliquable
- - Liable to melt, grow soft, or become fluid.
Collitigant
- - Disputing or wrangling. [Obs.] -- n. One who litigates or wrangles.
Combination
- noun - a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities
- a coordinated sequence of chess moves
- a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose; "they were a winning combination"
- a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock; "he forgot the combination to the safe"
- an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes)
- the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order
- the act of combining things to form a new whole
Combinative
- adjective - marked by or relating to or resulting from combination
- relating to or involving combinations