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ground glass
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ground glass [¦grau̇nd ′glas]
(optics)
A sheet of matte-surfaced glass on the back of a view camera or process camera so that the image of the subject can be focused on it; it is exactly in the film plane.

ground glass
Glass having a surface that has been roughened, usually by sandblasting or by acid, to make it nontransparent.


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