"achromatic lens" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: achromatic lenses [plural]
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  1. (optics) A lens generally composed of two separate lenses, one convex and one concave and generally of different materials, in such a way that the chromatic aberration produced by one is corrected by the other. Categories (topical): Optics

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