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Virtual image

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Virtual image"

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real imagenoun(optics) The image formed by light rays converging from a convex lens or concave mirror
virtual focusnoun(optics) A point from which light or other radiation apparently emanates, such as in the virtual image produced by a plane mirror.
convex lensnoun(optics) A lens having at least one convex surface, such that light passing through it may be brought to a focus.
anamorphosisnounA distorted image of an object that may be viewed correctly from a specific angle or with a specific mirror.
horopternounFor any system of binocular vision, a three-dimensional curve containing all points from which the light will converge into a single image.
comanounA state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.
purkinje imagenounAny of various reflections of objects within the structure of the eye.
diacausticnounRelating to the caustic curves formed by the refraction of light.
stigmatismnoun(medicine) Normal eyesight, anastigmatic state
lensnoun(optics) An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.
vergencenoun(physiology) The simultaneous turning of both eyes when focusing.
gravitational miragenoun(astrophysics) A distorted or false image of a distant galaxy (e.g. an image of a distant galaxy as a ring, or as multiple copies of itself) caused by a gravitational lens.
field lensnoun(optics) a positive-powered lens or group of lenses that comes after the objective lens and before the image plane or the eyepiece, serving to change the size of the image
decollimationnoun(optics, radio) Any mechanism in which rays either diverge or converge from parallelism
aberrationnounThe act of wandering; deviation from truth, moral rectitude; abnormal; divergence from the straight, correct, proper, normal, or from the natural state.
flatHaving no variations in height.
projectionnounThe action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
dove prismnounA kind of reflective prism used to invert the orientation of an image.
retrofocusnoun(photography, attributive) A wide-angle lens with an inverted telephoto configuration.
flatfieldnoun(optics) A flat portion of a lens or curved mirror, especially one introduced accidentally or by damage.

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