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overfogged

overfogged adjective: having a focal point that is in front of the retina or observer; myopic.

Adjective

overfogged (comparative more overfogged, superlative most overfogged)

  1. Having a focal point that is in front of the retina or observer; myopic.
    • After noting the visual acuity without glass, the patient is greatly overfogged — to a point where vision is not more than 6/80.1932, American Medical Association. Section on Ophthalmology, Transactions - Volume 83, page 73
    • Therefore, if the rest of the correction is accurate, the cause of greater impairment in one eye is probably that it is overfogged.1952, Sylvester Judd Beach, Principles of Refraction, page 97
  2. Containing too much fog.
    • Clearly, if the emulsion is overfogged it will be slow, since the number of holes required to bleach all developable centers will be larger; if underfogged, it will be fast but low in maximum density.1977, Thomas Howard James, The Theory of the Photographic Process, page 189
    • Proper understanding of airflow within the inlet duct to optimize the distribution of fog nozzles in order to avoid underfogged and overfogged areas.2007, Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power

Forms of overfogged

comparativemore overfogged
superlativemost overfogged

Origin of overfogged

From over- + fogged.

Questions about overfogged

What does overfogged mean?
Overfogged means having a focal point that is in front of the retina or observer; myopic.
What part of speech is overfogged?
Overfogged is an adjective.

Words near overfogged in the dictionary

  1. overfocuses
  2. overfocusing
  3. overfocussed
  4. overfocusses
  5. overfocussing
  6. overfogged
  7. overfold
  8. overfolded
  9. overfolding
  10. overfolds
  11. overfond

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