Dioptry

Quick meaning: Dioptry is a noun meaning (obsolete) Alternative form of diopter.

Meaning

(obsolete) Alternative form of diopter.

Example Sentences

They also shared a fearful myopia of identical dioptry, were apt to bump into inanimate objects, sit down on invisible chairs, or bounce off each other as they shambled about talking and gesticulating.

The Dioptral System of numbering prisms alone possesses the great desideratum of establishing a direct and simple relation between the prism-dioptry and the lens-dioptry, as demonstrated by the authors' law, that "a lens decentered one centimeter will produce as many prism-dioptry as the lens has dioptry of refraction."

Word Forms

• dioptries

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dioptra, dioptre, diopter, dioptometer, opsiometer, vertometer.

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