SPHERICAL ABERRATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spherical aberration mean? 

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

1. an optical aberration resulting in a distorted image

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

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• SPHERICAL ABERRATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An optical aberration resulting in a distorted image

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

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

aberration; distortion; optical aberration (an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image)