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Definition of Diopters
1. diopter [n] - See also: diopter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diopters
Literary usage of Diopters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diseases of the eye by George Edmund De Schweinitz (1916)
"The same lens decentered 0.5 cm. would produce 2 prism-diopters or ... to the
point of fixation in hundredths gives nearly the number of prism-diopters, ..."
2. An American Text-book of Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat by George Edmund De Schweinitz, Burton Alexander Randall (1899)
"Along with it is placed a scale of diopters of refracting power, corresponding
in an average eye to the different lengths of the radius of corneal curvature ..."
3. The Clinical Journal (1895)
"Indeed, I have never seen the like from any left eye to four diopters, and probably
to six in the right. But the most remarkable feature is the extent of ..."
4. The Photographic Journal of America: The Oldest Photography Magazine in America (1917)
"A lens of a power of one diopter h;is a focal length of 1 meter, and the power
varies inversely with the focal length, so that a lens of 3 diopters has a ..."
5. A Text-book of Ophthalmology by William Fisher Norris, Charles Augustus Oliver (1893)
"For example, suppose that the same ten diopters of lens-power are used that have
been ... Here one-fourth, or two and a half diopters, have been employed to ..."
6. The Cure of Imperfect Sight by Treatment Without Glasses by William Horatio Bates (1920)
"atropine was instilled into this eye the hypermetropia was increased to four and
a half diopters, and the vision lowered to 20/200. ..."
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