OPTICAL ABERRATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

An optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image

Synonyms:

aberration; distortion; optical aberration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("optical aberration" is a kind of...):

optical phenomenon (a physical phenomenon related to or involving light)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "optical aberration"):

chromatic aberration (an optical aberration in which the image has colored fringes)

spherical aberration (an optical aberration resulting in a distorted image)