Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or exhibiting astigmatism.
- In botany, without a stigma: applied to the flowers of gymnosperms from an ecological point of view. See
Stigmaticæ .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med. & Opt.) Affected with, or pertaining to, astigmatism; ; also, remedying astigmatism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective suffering from
astigmatism
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to a defect in the eye or in a lens caused by a deviation from spherical curvature which prevents light rays from meeting at a common focus and so results in distorted images
Etymologies
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Examples
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This discrepancy in focal length is a measure of the astigmatism, often referred to as the astigmatic difference, and will depend on the inclination angle of the light rays and the lens power (as opposed to the shape or refractive index).
unknown title 2009
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This discrepancy in focal length is a measure of the astigmatism, often referred to as the astigmatic difference, and will depend on the inclination angle of the light rays and the lens power (as opposed to the shape or refractive index).
unknown title 2009
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A red-headed researcher, actually working on a problem of a transistor which would record the TP impulse, hastily invented the fact that TP optical transmission was astigmatic and humbly requested enlightenment.
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The astigmatic test at a local Wal-Mart Vision Center
The astigmatic test at a local Wal-Mart Vision Center Sinh 2009
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Apart from the fact that my eyes were a little astigmatic by nature, as it was.
Archive 2009-03-01 Eric Dickens 2009
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He'll gaze into your squinting, astigmatic eyes and fall in love with you because you're special, just like your mother always said you were.
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But now novelists go into every class of society for their heroes, and surely, at least an occasional one of them must have been astigmatic.
A Wodehouse Miscellany and Psmith Finals | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2008
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Can't get off-the-shelf ones as have strange astigmatic prescription probably resulting from too much time spent at computer screens.
Archive 2007-01-01 Jessica 2007
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Can't get off-the-shelf ones as have strange astigmatic prescription probably resulting from too much time spent at computer screens.
Not exactly a new year peerage Jessica 2007
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I'm pretty seriously astigmatic, and prone to eyestrain headaches, and I find white text or grey text on black painful and hard to read.
Fade to Black, Back in Black, Back to Black... - And She Knits Too! 2007
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