ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to a defect in the eye or in a lens caused by a deviation from spherical curvature which prevents light rays from meeting at a common focus and so results in distorted images
How To Use astigmatic In A Sentence
- Important special cases of stationary anastigmatic mounts and their performance are presented.
- THERE is no country in which an anastigmatic lens is of more use to the photographer than Alaska, and every camera with which it is hoped to take winter scenes should have this equipment. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska
- Six horses were also examined, of which one had normal sight, three were hypermetropic and astigmatic, and two had a slight degree of astigmatism. Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
- By increasing 2, as compared to the anastigmatic design, the coma can be cancelled completely.
- From the propagation theory of partially coherent light, spectral anomalies and spectral switches of Gaussian Schell-model beams focused by an astigmatic aperture lens are studied.
- A red-headed researcher, actually working on a problem of a transistor which would record the TP impulse, hastily invented the fact that TP optical transmission was astigmatic and humbly requested enlightenment. Wild Dreams of Reality, 5
- He couldn't remember when he had last felt so astray; he was like an astigmatic man trying to thread a needle. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
- The eyes of five rats examined gave the following result: Some were far sighted, others were hypermetropic and astigmatic, one was slightly myopic and one had mixed astigmatism. Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
- You are too conscious of the soft focus lens and of the anastigmatic lens. Pictorial Photography in America 1921
- The astigmatic test at a local Wal-Mart Vision Center The astigmatic test at a local Wal-Mart Vision Center
