Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Varying slightly from sphericity and having only slight aberration, as a lens.
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- adjective
aspherical
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective varying slightly from a perfectly spherical shape
Etymologies
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Examples
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They're called aspheric lenses and are great for people (like me) with slight astigmatisms.
a Brit different 2008
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They're called aspheric lenses and are great for people (like me) with slight astigmatisms.
a Brit different 2008
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Whitehead gave me a very difficult problem – one that had been attacked unsuccessfully for a quarter of a century – namely, to show that knots are "aspheric" (we won't explain here what this means).
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My spell checker says "aspheric" isn't a word, but I'll leave it in as GE must know what it's talking about and has presumably checked that.
Tech Digest Gary Cutlack 2008
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I installed the European-style blind-spot mirror, which is aspheric, and I do not have a blind spot anymore.
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Chiara was His sister, a regal beauty with aspheric eyes, cinematic in presence: Chiara who was always made up elegantly for the parties that she would throw at their flat along the Riviera; Chiara who was married to the hilarious, devil-may-care Andrea; Andrea whose family spent their summers in Nice; Andrea who had approached Chiara on a dare one sultry summer evening.
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LightPath manufactures optical products including precision molded aspheric optics
LightPath Technologies Announces Preliminary Second Quarter Results - Yahoo! Finance 2011
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The lens features six elements in five groups (including three aspheric elements).
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The lens features six elements in five groups (including three aspheric elements).
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