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Webster 1913 Edition

Dioptrics

Di-op′trics

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Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK] [GREEK]: cf. F.
dioptrique
.]
(Optics)
The science of the refraction of light; that part of geometrical optics which treats of the laws of the refraction of light in passing from one medium into another, or through different mediums, as air, water, or glass, and esp. through different lenses; – distinguished from catoptrics, which refers to reflected light.

Webster 1828 Edition

Dioptrics

DIOPTRICS

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Noun.
That part of optics which treats of the refractions of light passing through different mediums, as through air, water or glass.

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dioptrics

dioptrics

English

Noun

dioptrics

  1. plural of dioptric
  2. the study of the refraction of light, especially by lenses

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