Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Varying slightly from sphericity and having only slight aberration, as a lens.
Wiktionary
- adj. aspherical
WordNet 3.0
- adj. varying slightly from a perfectly spherical shape
Etymologies
- a- + spheric (Wiktionary)
Examples
“They're called aspheric lenses and are great for people (like me) with slight astigmatisms.”
“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).”
“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.”
“I installed the European-style blind-spot mirror, which is aspheric, and I do not have a blind spot anymore.”
“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”
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“The lens features six elements in five groups (including three aspheric elements).”
“The TECNIS IOL is an acrylic wavefront lens with an aspheric design.”
“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.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘aspheric’.
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ablative absolute, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, aleatory, ailanthus, alfresco, algolagnia and 482 more...
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