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Definition of Dioptric
1. a. Of or pertaining to the dioptre, or to the metric system of numbering glasses.
2. a. Of or pertaining to dioptrics; assisting vision by means of the refraction of light; refractive; as, the dioptric system; a dioptric glass or telescope.
Definition of Dioptric
1. Adjective. (obsolete) Pertaining to a diopter. ¹
2. Adjective. Acting as a medium for sight; making use of refraction (of lenses, etc.). ¹
3. Adjective. (obsolete) Capable of being seen through. ¹
4. Noun. (in the plural) The branch of optics concerned with refraction. ¹
5. Noun. A dioptric telescope. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dioptric
1. aiding the vision by refraction [adj]
Medical Definition of Dioptric
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dioptric
Literary usage of Dioptric
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Merchant Service: Being a History of the British Mercantile by R. J. Cornewall-Jones (1898)
"... the dioptric systems—The catoptric system—Primitive reflectors—More recent
... as to the dioptric system given before the Royal Commission—Distances at ..."
2. A Manual of Physiology by Gerald Francis Yeo (1890)
"DEFECTS OF dioptric APPARATUS. In common with all dioptric instruments the eye
... Possibly the different density of the various parts of the dioptric media ..."
3. Manual of the diseases of the eye: For Students and General Practitioners by Charles Henry May (1901)
"The dioptric/system is the one now ... NUMBERED IN THE dioptric AND INCH SYSTEMS.
The Trial Case (Fig. 197) is a flat box containing -f and — spherical, ..."
4. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1900)
"IMPERFECTIONS IN THE dioptric APPARATUS. §732. Imperfections of accommodation.
The emme tropic eye, in which the principal posterior focus lies on the ..."
5. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1862)
"dioptric lights are made of six different sizes or orders as they are termed;
and the following table gives the internal radius of the apparatus or the ..."
6. A Text book of physiology by Michael Foster (1894)
"IMPERFECTIONS IN THE dioptric APPARATUS. § 545. ... sufficient divergence to
enable tin dioptric mechanism of the eye to bring them to a focus on, ..."
7. A Rudimentary Treatise on the History, Construction and Illumination of by Alan Stevenson (1850)
"Let us now speak of fixed lights, to which the dioptric method is peculiarly well
adapted. The effect produced by the consumption of a gallon of oil in a ..."
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