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anomaloscopes

anomaloscopes is the plural of anomaloscope.

Meaning of anomaloscope

Noun

anomaloscope (plural anomaloscopes)

  1. An instrument used to test for color blindness by measuring quantitative and qualitative anomalies in color perception.
    • The anomaloscope contains a red-green scale from which may be read a number that is proportional to the amount of red in the mixture field, and a Y scale from which is read a number proportional to the luminance of the test color. In testing an observer, the examiner notes the scale values, which...1981, Committee on Vision, National Research Council, “Color Vision Tests”, in Procedures for Testing Color Vision: Report of Working Group 41, Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, →OCLC, page...

Questions about anomaloscopes

What is anomaloscopes the plural of?
Anomaloscopes is the plural of anomaloscope.

Words near anomaloscopes in the dictionary

  1. anomalopid
  2. anomalopids
  3. anomalosaepiid
  4. anomalosaepiids
  5. anomaloscope
  6. anomaloscopes
  7. anomaloscopic
  8. anomaloscopy
  9. anomalous
  10. anomalous water
  11. anomalously

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