Plural of collimator; multiple devices that align light rays or particles into parallel beams.
From 'collimator' plus the standard English plural suffix -s.
Modern surgical tools like the Gamma Knife use hundreds of collimators working together—each tiny beam is harmless, but when they all focus at one point inside the brain, they precisely destroy a tumor!
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