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collimated light

light whose rays are parallel, and therefore will spread minimally as it propagates
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collimated light

Summary

collimated light ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (122 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • collimated light's image is recorded as Collimator2.svg[2].
  • collimated light's image is recorded as CollimatingLensSVG.svg[3].
  • collimated light's image is recorded as Fresnel lighthouse lens diagram.png[4].
  • collimated light's subclass of is recorded as light[5].
  • collimated light's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01j30y[6].
  • collimated light's different from is recorded as coherence[7].
  • collimated light's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as collimation[8].
  • collimated light's Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID is recorded as 268[9].
  • collimated light's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 34445779[10].
  • collimated light's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 01002218-n[11].
  • collimated light's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C34445779[12].

Why It Matters

collimated light ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (122 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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