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Definition of Aplanatic
1. Adjective. Free from or corrected for spherical aberration. "An aplanatic mirror"
Definition of Aplanatic
1. a. Having two or more parts of different curvatures, so combined as to remove spherical aberration; -- said of a lens.
Definition of Aplanatic
1. Adjective. (context: of an optical system) Free from, or corrected for, spherical aberration and chromatic aberration ¹
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Definition of Aplanatic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Aplanatic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Aplanatic
Literary usage of Aplanatic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles and Methods of Geometrical Optics: Especially as Applied to by James Powell Cocke Southall (1910)
"But, according to ABBE, in order for an optical system to be aplanatic, ...
Thus, the aplanatic pair of points Z, Z' of a spherical refracting surface are ..."
2. Photographic Optics by Désiré van Monckhoven (1867)
"Non-aplanatic objectives employed with all their aperture give confused images
over the whole extent of the focal plane. With a diaphragm equal to-^—, ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1870)
"STOKES, Sec. R, S. Received March 31, 1870. (Abstract.) The aplanatic Searcher
is intended to improve the penetration, ..."
4. The Microscope in Theory and Practice by Karl Wilhelm Naegeli, Simon Schwendener (1892)
"Our experience has been limited chiefly to the use of the aplanatic eyepiece of
... eye-piece in being composed of two aplanatic double-lenses; ..."
5. A Treatise on Light by Robert Alexander Houstoun (1915)
"(12) Prove directly without using the property of aplanatic surfaces that, if a
ray of light from a point P is reflected by a plane mirror so as to arrive ..."
6. A Treatise on Geometrical Optics by Robert Alfred Herman (1900)
"A surface separating media of refractive indices fj, and // will be aplanatic,
ie it will refract rays from a point Q accurately to a point Q', ..."
7. Principles of Physics, Or Natural Philosophy: Designed for the Use of by Benjamin Silliman (1871)
"Lister's aplanatic foci, and compound objectives. ... This point is therefore
called an aplanatic focus. The incident ray, fd, makes with the perpendicular, ..."
8. Petrographic Methods: The Authorized English Translation of Part I by Ernst Weinschenk, Robert Watson Clark (1912)
"Testing the Lenses aplanatic and Achromatic Properties.—Although accurate correction
for spherical and chromatic aberration in the illuminating lenses plays ..."
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