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Definition of Optical aberration

1. Noun. An optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image.

Medical Definition of Optical aberration

1. Failure of rays from a point source to form a perfect image after traversing an optical system. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Optical Aberration

Literary usage of Optical aberration

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1841)
"In the eighth chapter, the eye is considered as a dioptric instrument ; in the ninth, optical aberration, spherical aberration, and the corrections ..."

2. Descartes and the Hyperbolic Quest: Lens Making Machines and Their by D. Graham Burnett (2005)
"A new form of optical aberration was implied, a chromatic aberration, which no hyperbolic, ellipsoidal, or (Huygens- style) compound lens could resolve.51 ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"ТЫ« expression for the intensity becomes rigorously applicable when / is indefinitely great, so that ordinary optical aberration disappears. ..."

4. Scientific Papers by John William Strutt Rayleigh (1902)
"(2) This expression for the intensity becomes rigorously applicable when f is indefinitely great, so that ordinary optical aberration disappears. ..."

5. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1797)
"The doctrine of optical - aberration from figure, and method of obviating it ; from Huyghens—Application to ..."

6. The Classical Psychologists: Selections Illustrating Psychology from by Benjamin Rand (1912)
"In the case of simple lens refraction we abstract from optical aberration. In fact they may become invalid as soon as the simple hypotheses for which they ..."

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