anastigmatic
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of anastigmatic
First recorded in 1885–90; an- 1 + astigmatic
Example Sentences
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In front of Bourke-White's sympathetic but anastigmatic eye files the Five-Year cake-walk�agricultural, industrial, probably unworkable.
From Time Magazine Archive
For while Author Carson saw the sea as a poet might, with the inward eye, Director Irwin Allen sees it mostly through a very expensive anastigmatic lens.
From Time Magazine Archive
You are too conscious of the soft focus lens and of the anastigmatic lens.
From Pictorial Photography in America 1921 by Pictorial Photographers of America
Systems in which the two astigmatic surfaces coincide are termed anastigmatic or stigmatic.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
There is no country in which an anastigmatic lens is of more use to the photographer than Alaska, and every camera with which it is hoped to take winter scenes should have this equipment.
From Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Stuck, Hudson
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