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OPTICAL ABERRATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
Synonyms:
aberration; distortion; optical aberration
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("optical aberration" is a kind of...):
optical phenomenon (a physical phenomenon related to or involving light)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "optical aberration"):
chromatic aberration (an optical aberration in which the image has colored fringes)
spherical aberration (an optical aberration resulting in a distorted image)
