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achromatism
[ ey-kroh-muh-tiz-uhm ]
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Origin of achromatism1
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Example Sentences
The low dispersive power of water masks, as Helmholtz has remarked, the imperfect achromatism of the eye.
Thus examined, the departure of the eye from achromatism appears very gross indeed.
These phenomena are fully explained by the imperfect achromatism of the eye.
The achromatism of prisms depends upon the same principles, and it is effected in the same way as that of lenses.
It would seem that the eye is but little sensitive to colours thus presented, perhaps on account of its own want of achromatism.
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