Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Varying slightly from sphericity and having only slight aberration, as a lens.

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  • adjective aspherical

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  • adjective varying slightly from a perfectly spherical shape

Etymologies

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a- +‎ spheric

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Examples

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

    a Brit different 2008

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

    a Brit different 2008

  • 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 2006

  • 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 Gary Cutlack 2008

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

    A Hatchback With Some Punch 2011

  • 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.

    The Morning of the Birth 2009

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    PLEASE give me a break... just a little one barbylon 2003

  • LightPath manufactures optical products including precision molded aspheric optics

    LightPath Technologies Announces Preliminary Second Quarter Results - Yahoo! Finance 2011

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

    Imaging Resource News Page 2010

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

    Imaging Resource News Page 2010

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