OPTICAL ABERRATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does optical aberration mean? 

• OPTICAL ABERRATION (noun)
  The noun OPTICAL ABERRATION has 1 sense:

1. an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image

  Familiarity information: OPTICAL ABERRATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OPTICAL ABERRATION (noun)

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Meaning:

An optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

aberration; distortion; optical aberration

Hypernyms ("optical aberration" is a kind of...):

optical phenomenon (a physical phenomenon related to or involving light)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "optical aberration"):

chromatic aberration (an optical aberration in which the image has colored fringes)

spherical aberration (an optical aberration resulting in a distorted image)