Definition of 'chromatic aberration'

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chromatic aberration in British

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a defect in a lens system in which different wavelengths of light are focused at different distances because they are refracted through different angles. It produces a blurred image with coloured fringes

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chromatic aberration in American

a property of lenses that causes the various colors in a beam of light to be focused at different points, thus causing a margin of colors to appear around the edges of the image

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Used Rarely. chromatic aberration is in the lower 50% of commonly used words in the Collins dictionary

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Definition of chromatic aberration from the Collins English Dictionary

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