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chromatic aberration

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chromatic aberration
n.
Color distortion in an image produced by a lens, caused by the inability of the lens to bring the various colors of light to focus at a single point.
chromatic aberration
See under aberration.
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Noun1.chromatic aberrationchromatic aberration - an optical aberration in which the image has colored fringes
optical aberration, aberration, distortion - an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image


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-- To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.
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