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aberration

  • (Micro Print) Several types of aberration: Spherical Aberration, Coma, Astigmatism, Curvature of Field, Distortion, Chromatic Aberration. (Online) Spherical Aberation (only).
    In aberration

    Curvature of field and distortion refer to the location of image points with respect to one another. Even though the former three aberrations may be corrected for in the design of a lens, these two aberrations could remain. In curvature of field, the image of a plane object perpendicular…

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lenses and optical systems

  • compound microscope
    In microscope: Aberration

    Distortion produces curved images from straight lines in the object. The type and degree of distortion visible is intimately related to the possible spherical aberration in the magnifier and is usually most severe in high-powered lenses.

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  • reflection of light
    In optics: Distortion

    For the S5 aberration,

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  • sequence of negative–positive process
    In technology of photography: Aberrations

    Distortion is present when straight lines running parallel with the picture edges appear to bow outward (barrel distortion) or inward (pincushion distortion).

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