| CARACOLLING | • caracolling v. Present participle of caracol. • CARACOL v. (French) to perform a half turn on a horse, also CARACOLE. |
| COLLIGATING | • colligating v. Present participle of colligate. • COLLIGATE v. to tie or bind together. |
| COLLIGATION | • colligation n. A binding together. • colligation n. (Logic) The formulation of a general hypothesis which seeks to connect two or more facts. • colligation n. (Linguistics) The co-occurrence of syntactic categories, usually within a sentence. |
| COLLIGATIVE | • colligative adj. (Chemistry, physics) Describing any property that depends only on the number of molecules present. • COLLIGATIVE adj. depending on the number of particles (as molecules) and not on the nature of the particles. |
| COLLIMATING | • collimating v. Present participle of collimate. • collimating adj. That collimates, or employs collimation. • COLLIMATE v. to make parallel; to adjust accurately the line of sight of (an optical instrument, such as a surveying telescope). |
| COLLIMATION | • collimation n. The act of collimating or something collimated. • collimation n. Aligning lenses along line of sight to minimize aberrations. • COLLIMATION n. the act of making parallel. |
| COLLIMATORS | • collimators n. Plural of collimator. • COLLIMATOR n. a telescope arranged and used to determine errors of collimation, both vertical and horizontal. |
| COLLINEARLY | • collinearly adv. In a collinear manner. • COLLINEAR adv. in the same straight line, also COLINEAR. |
| COLLIQUABLE | • colliquable adj. (Obsolete, rare) Liable to melt, grow soft, or become fluid. • COLLIQUABLE adj. (obsolete) melting, wasting, also COLLIQUANT. |
| COLLIQUATED | • colliquated v. Simple past tense and past participle of colliquate. • COLLIQUATE v. (obsolete) to melt, fuse. |
| COLLIQUATES | • colliquates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of colliquate. • COLLIQUATE v. (obsolete) to melt, fuse. |
| COLLISIONAL | • collisional adj. (Physics) Of or pertaining to collisions (especially between particles). • COLLISIONAL adj. relating to a collision. |
| TORTICOLLIS | • torticollis n. A medical condition in which the neck muscles contract, causing the neck to twist or jerk. • TORTICOLLIS n. a condition in which the neck is permanently twisted and head held at an unusual angle. |