Usually means: Unit of measurement for lenses.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. diopter: Merriam-Webster
  2. diopter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. diopter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. diopter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. diopter: Vocabulary.com
  6. Diopter, diopter: Wordnik
  7. diopter: Wiktionary
  8. diopter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. diopter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. diopter: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. diopter: Dictionary.com
  12. Diopter (disambiguation), Diopter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Diopter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. diopter: Rhymezone
  15. Diopter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. diopter: FreeDictionary.org
  17. diopter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. diopter: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. diopter: Legal dictionary
  2. diopter: Financial dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. diopter: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. diopter: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Diopter: LASIK Eye Surgery Glossary
  4. Diopter: Visionary
  5. diopter: Laser Eye Surgery
  6. diopter: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Visionary, for the Study of Vision (No longer online)
  2. Diopter: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. Diopter: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  2. Diopter: Nikonians Photo Glossary

(Note: See diopters as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (diopter)

noun:  A unit of measure of the power of a lens or mirror, equal to the reciprocal of its focal length in meters. Myopia is diagnosed and measured in diopters.
noun:  The dioptre adjustment mechanism of a pair of binoculars or of a camera viewfinder.
noun:  (photography, dated) A lens element attached to the front of a photographic lens to shorten the lens's minimum focus distance; also called a "close-up filter".
noun:  (obsolete) Any lens system, such as a telescope.
noun:  (obsolete) A theodolite or similar surveyor’s angle measuring device.
noun:  (obsolete) An alidade.
noun:  (obsolete) A surgical speculum.
noun:  (obsolete) An instrument for drawing the skull by projections.

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