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Definition of Dioptrics
1. n. The science of the refraction of light; that part of geometrical optics which treats of the laws of the refraction of light in passing from one medium into another, or through different mediums, as air, water, or glass, and esp. through different lenses; -- distinguished from catoptrics, which refers to reflected light.
Definition of Dioptrics
1. Noun. (plural of dioptric) ¹
2. Noun. the study of the refraction of light, especially by lenses ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dioptrics
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Literary usage of Dioptrics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Frederic Harrison (1896)
"dioptrics. Of all the departments of Optics, dioptrics is at present the richest
in certain and exact knowledge, reduced to a few simple laws, ..."
2. Treatise on Optics by David Brewster, Alexander Dallas Bache (1854)
"dioptrics. (27.) dioptrics is that branch of optics which treats of the progress
of those rays of light which enter transparent bodies and are transmitted ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"dioptrics, being more difficult, wae developed less rapidly. Ptolemy already knew
that the angle of refraction is not proportional to the angle of incidence ..."
4. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1915)
"THE EYE AS AN OPTICAL INSTRUMENT-dioptrics OF THE EYE. Formation of an Image by
a Biconvex Lens.—That the refractive surfaces of the eye form an image of ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1830)
"A Rationale of the Law* of Cerebral Vision : comprising the Laics of Single and
of Erect Vision, deduced upon the Principles of dioptrics. ..."
6. The Physiology of the Senses by John Gray M'Kendrick, William Snodgrass (1907)
"LAWS OF dioptrics The Physical Nature of Light.—It was once held that a luminous
body shoots out from itself minute particles, which, passing to the ..."
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