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chromatic aberration |
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chromatic aberration: see aberration aberration, in optics, condition that causes a blurring and loss of clearness in the images produced by lenses or mirrors. Of the many types of aberration, the two most significant to the lens maker are spherical and chromatic. ..... Click the link for more information. , in optics. Fringes of color at the edges of objects in a photograph due to the inability of the camera lens to deal with all wavelengths of light equally. High-quality lenses that use multiple elements generally diminish chromatic aberration. See purple fringing and lens flare. |
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-- To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. |
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chromatic aberration
