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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Varying slightly from sphericity and having only slight aberration, as a lens.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. aspherical

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. varying slightly from a perfectly spherical shape

Etymologies

  1. a- +‎ spheric (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “They're called aspheric lenses and are great for people (like me) with slight astigmatisms.”

    a Brit different

  • “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).”

    Robert J. Aumann - Autobiography

  • “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

  • “I installed the European-style blind-spot mirror, which is aspheric, and I do not have a blind spot anymore.”

    The Wall Street Journal: A Hatchback With Some Punch

  • “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.”

    Fictionaut: The Morning of the Birth

  • “Thanks! sweatpants flor carpet tile square discount magliner vegetable trolleys personalized coctail napkins mini dragonfly bra lipfinity gallotia wholesale gourmet coffees aspheric home coin counter at t prepaid international phone card moldova new valentino fragrance”

    PLEASE give me a break... just a little one

  • “LightPath manufactures optical products including precision molded aspheric optics”

    LightPath Technologies Announces Preliminary Second Quarter Results - Yahoo! Finance

  • “The lens features six elements in five groups (including three aspheric elements).”

    Imaging Resource News Page

  • “The TECNIS IOL is an acrylic wavefront lens with an aspheric design.”

    The Online Photographer

  • “The Tamron 17-50/2.8 (I'm guessing you got the aspheric one?) is a great lens and people rave about it on photo forums.”

    The Tech Report: News

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