"Emmetropia" is a word in ENGLISH
That refractive condition of the eye in which the rays
of light are all brought accurately and without undue effort to a focus
upon the retina; -- opposed to hypermetropia, myopia, an astigmatism.
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Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye.
Read the complete definitionProduced by the refraction of light, as seen through water; as, anaclastic curves.
Read the complete definitionThat part of optics which treats of the refraction of light; -- commonly called dioptrics.
Read the complete definitionAn anomalous state of refraction caused by the absence of the crystalline lens, as after operations for cataract. The remedy …
Read the complete definitionThe quantity on which another quantity in a table depends; as, the altitude is the argument of the refraction.
Read the complete definitionOne of the seven colors into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism; the …
Read the complete definitionA diamond or other gem of the finest cut, formed into faces and facets, so as to reflect and refract …
Read the complete definitionPertaining to, produced by, or involving, both the reflection and refraction of light; as, a catadioptric light.
Read the complete definitionPertaining to, or possessing the properties of, a species of caustic curves formed by refraction. See Caustic surface, under Caustic.
Read the complete definitionThat which burns by refraction, as a double convex lens, or the sun's rays concentrated by such a lens, sometimes …
Read the complete definitionA curved formed by the consecutive intersections of rays of light refracted through a lens.
Read the complete definitionPertaining to the science or doctrine of refracted sounds.
Read the complete definitionThe doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics.
Read the complete definitionA unit employed by oculists in numbering glasses according to the metric system; a refractive power equal to that of …
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to dioptrics; assisting vision by means of the refraction of light; refractive; as, the dioptric system; a …
Read the complete definitionThe science of the refraction of light; that part of geometrical optics which treats of the laws of the refraction …
Read the complete definitionOne of a species of coccoliths, having an oval discoidal body, with a thick strongly refracting rim, and a thinner …
Read the complete definitionOne of the dark particles forming the doubly refracting disks of muscle fibers.
Read the complete definitionDimness or abolition of sight, with a diminution of transparency, a bluish or greenish tinge of the refracting media of …
Read the complete definitionA luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of …
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