Chromatic Aberration Definition

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noun
A property of lenses that causes the various colors in a beam of light to be focused at different points, thus causing a margin of colors to appear around the edges of the image.
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Other Word Forms of Chromatic Aberration

Noun

Singular:
chromatic aberration
Plural:
chromatic aberrations

Chromatic Aberration Sentence Examples

  • The chromatic aberration of the object-glass of one of these telescopes is corrected for photographic rays, and the image formed by it is received on a highly sensitive photographic plate.

  • With this mineral also spherical and chromatic aberration are a fraction of that of a glass lens, but double refraction, which involves a doubling of the image, is fatal to its use.

  • A lens system comprising two elements, used to reduce chromatic aberration.

  • I also looked into the immense size of chromatic aberration in the human eye.

  • I knew the cause to be lateral chromatic aberration.

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