Usually means: Eliminates spherical aberration and coma.
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  1. aplanatic: Merriam-Webster
  2. aplanatic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. aplanatic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. aplanatic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. aplanatic: Vocabulary.com
  6. aplanatic: Wordnik
  7. aplanatic: Wiktionary
  8. aplanatic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. aplanatic: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. aplanatic: Dictionary.com
  11. Aplanatic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. aplanatic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. aplanatic: Rhymezone
  14. Aplanatic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. aplanatic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. aplanatic: FreeDictionary.org
  17. aplanatic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. aplanatic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. aplanatic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. aplanatic: Merriam-Webster

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. aplanatic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. aplanatic: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (aplanatic)

▸ adjective:  (optics, of an optical system) Free from, or corrected for, spherical aberration and chromatic aberration

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corrected, apocentric, optical, quasioptical, catadioptric, achromatopsic, aphakial, anaplasic, aberrational, aphakic, more...

Phrases:
aplanatic lens, aplanatic points, aplanatic telescope, aplanatic focus, more...

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corrected, apocentric, optical, quasioptical, catadioptric, achromatopsic, aphakial, anaplasic, aberrational, aphakic, more...

Phrases:
aplanatic lens, aplanatic points, aplanatic telescope, aplanatic focus, more...



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