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Definition of Decentering
1. decenter [v] - See also: decenter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decentering
Literary usage of Decentering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Spectacles and eyeglasses: Their Forms, Mounting and Proper Adjustment by Richard Jones Phillips (1908)
"This leaves 6 mm. to be obtained by decentering the glasses in their eye wires.
... Prismatic Effect of Decentering.—It is to obtain a prismatic effect from ..."
2. Tests and studies of the ocular muscles by Ernest Edmund Maddox (1907)
"To put it in a formula (if C be the centimeters of decentering and P the desired
prismatic effect) in degrees of variation, C = 7P To show the Prismatic ..."
3. Refraction of the Human Eye and Methods of Estimating the Refraction by James Thorington (1916)
"In profile (Fig. no) this +4 spheric lens shows the prism thus manufactured by
decentering. The prismatic effect of decentering a plus sphere is always ..."
4. Radiant Energy and the Ophthalmic Lens by Frederick Booth (1921)
"In some cases the strength of the recti muscles can be doubled. 286. Decentering
Lenses, to Obtain a Given Prismatic Effect. ..."
5. The Ocular muscles: A Practical Handbook on the Muscular Anomalies of the Eye by Howard Forde Hansell (1912)
"Decentering LENSES. Some oculists prefer to decenter ... The table prepared by Dr.
Edward Jackson here shown indicates the amount or decentering of a lens ..."
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