Usually means: Shared focal points in optics.
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  1. confocal: Merriam-Webster
  2. confocal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. confocal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. confocal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Confocal, confocal: Wordnik
  6. confocal: Wiktionary
  7. confocal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. confocal: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. confocal: Dictionary.com
  10. Confocal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Confocal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Confocal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. confocal: FreeDictionary.org
  14. confocal: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. confocal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. confocal: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confocal: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (confocal)

▸ adjective:  (optics, mathematics) Having the same foci
▸ noun:  Any of a pair of confocal mirrors or lenses

Similar:
isospectral, homographic, isomonodromic, cosingular, isotropic, pseudoconformal, coherent, centroaffine, cocyclomatic, cofibrant, more...

Opposite:
non-confocal, non-overlapping, divergent

Types:
confocal microscope, more...

Phrases:
confocal microscopy, confocal microscope, microscopy confocal, confocal quadrics, confocal laser scanning microscope, more...

Adjectives:
quadric, ellipsoid, scanning, time, new, high, conventional, second, laser, coherent, bilateral

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Similar:
isospectral, homographic, isomonodromic, cosingular, isotropic, pseudoconformal, coherent, centroaffine, cocyclomatic, cofibrant, more...

Opposite:
non-confocal, non-overlapping, divergent

Types:
confocal microscope, more...

Phrases:
confocal microscopy, confocal microscope, microscopy confocal, confocal quadrics, confocal laser scanning microscope, Scanning confocal electron microscopy, more...

Adjectives:
quadric, ellipsoid, scanning, time, new, high, conventional, second, laser, coherent, bilateral



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