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aplanats

aplanats is the plural of aplanat.

Meaning of aplanat

Noun

aplanat (plural aplanats)

  1. A lens that has been corrected for spherical aberration and coma in order to produce a rectilinear image.
    • For comparison, an aplanat of a focus catalogued at 16 inches, actually found by experiment to have a focus of 16 11-16 inches, was used.1894, W. K. Burton, “The Zeiss Anastigmatic Lenses”, in Julius F. Sachse, editor, American Journal of Photography, Volume XV, page 4

Questions about aplanats

What is aplanats the plural of?
Aplanats is the plural of aplanat.

Words near aplanats in the dictionary

  1. aplacophoran
  2. aplacophorans
  3. aplanat
  4. aplanatic
  5. aplanatism
  6. aplanats
  7. aplano-
  8. aplanochytrid
  9. aplanochytrids
  10. aplanogamete
  11. aplanogametes

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