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Definition of Optometer
1. n. An instrument for measuring the distance of distinct vision, mainly for the selection of eveglasses.
Definition of Optometer
1. Noun. An instrument for measuring the focus of the lens of the eye. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Optometer
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Optometer
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Optometer
Literary usage of Optometer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Physical Technics; Or, Practical Instructions for Making Experiments in by Joseph Frick (1862)
"... optometer, in its simplest form, is easily constructed. Have two square wooden
tubes made, about 15 inches long, so that one will slide easily in the ..."
2. A Handbook of Ophthalmic Science and Practice by Henry Edward Juler (1884)
"The distinctive feature of other optometers is the nature of the test-object;
thus in Tweedy's optometer it consists of a series of radiating lines on a ..."
3. Diseases of the Eye by Lawrance Webster Fox (1904)
"... is probably most commonly used in this connection. The principle is the same
in all forms of this apparatus. It con- Fio. 219.— MODERN optometer AND ..."
4. Ophthalmic review (1903)
"This disc replaces the ophthalmoscope mirror when it is desired to use the
ophthalmoscope as an optometer to measure refraction. The optometer-carrier ..."
5. On the Anomalies of Accommodation and Refraction of the Eye: With a by Franciscus Cornelis Donders (1864)
"This distance is then transferred to the plates PP of the optometer). ...
With these determinations we begin ; the optometer-object is taken away, ..."
6. Technic of Refraction, Trial Case and Refractive Instruments: A Manual of by Thomas George Atkinson (1922)
"... or Phoro- optometer. For testing refraction, proceed as follows: 1. Align the
instrument vertically and horizontally with the distance chart, ..."
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