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achromatic lens

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A combination of lenses made of different glass, used to produce images free of chromatic aberrations.

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  • noun optics A lens generally composed of two separate lenses, one convex and one concave and generally of different materials, in such a way that the chromatic aberration produced by one is corrected by the other.

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  • noun a compound lens system that forms an image free from chromatic aberration

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