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nounan optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
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nouna state or condition markedly different from the normtype of:
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nouna disorder in one's mental state
Definition that contains aberration
- warp a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting
- deflection a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting
- aplanatic free from or corrected for spherical aberration
- schmidt telescope reflecting telescope that has plate that corrects for aberration so a wide area of sky can be photographed
- apochromatic corrected for both chromatic and spherical aberration
- aberrate diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration
- spherical aberration an optical aberration resulting in a distorted image
- chromatic aberration an optical aberration in which the image has colored fringes
- maksutov telescope reflecting telescope in which the aberration of the concave mirror is reduced by a meniscus lens
- achromatic lens a compound lens system that forms an image free from chromatic aberration