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noun
Image-formation property of an optical system which focuses a single point source in object space into a single point in image space
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, optics, physical-sciences, physics
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noun
Normal eyesight, anastigmatic state
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
State of having stigmata
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
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noun
Alternative form of astigmatism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
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noun
Alternative form of stigma.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, proscribed
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noun
normal eyesight
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: sight, vision, visual sense, visual modality
noun
(optics) condition of an optical system (as a lens) in which light rays from a single point converge in a single focal point
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Antonyms: astigmatism
Broader terms: condition, status
noun
the condition of having or being marked by stigmata
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: condition
History
Derived from Ancient Greek στίγματος (stígmatos, “point”) + -ism.
Rebracketing of astigmatism as a stigmatism.
Hypercorrect analysis of stigmatism as the nominal form of stigmatise (compare the verb baptise with the noun baptism)
Across languages
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
