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optograms

optograms is the plural of optogram.

Meaning of optogram

Noun

optogram (plural optograms)

  1. An image of external objects fixed on the retina by the photochemical action of light on rhodopsin.
    • The bleaching of visual purple is limited to the area exposed to light, so that an optogram or image of the luminous object, such as a window, can be obtained.1924, John Herbert Parsons, An Introduction to the Study of Colour Vision, page 16

Questions about optograms

What is optograms the plural of?
Optograms is the plural of optogram.

Words near optograms in the dictionary

  1. optogenetic
  2. optogenetical
  3. optogenetically
  4. optogenetics
  5. optogram
  6. optograms
  7. optography
  8. optoinject
  9. optoinjectant
  10. optoinjectants
  11. optoinjected

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