fogging

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A method of refracting the eye in which accommodation is relaxed by overcorrection with a convex spherical lens, used in testing vision.

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Mississippi’s nickname comes from the magnificent trees that grow there. What is it?

The damp air was fogging the lenses, but I kept them to my eyes; for I did not want to look at Davies.
The Riddle of the Sands|Erskine Childers
He wasn't a man to follow problems to a conclusion, however, and it simply hung in his mind as a fogging event.
The Three Sapphires|W. A. Fraser
Photographers must know that fogging and blurring the image is curtailing the experience of it.
Adventures in the Arts|Marsden Hartley
He is none the less magic because he works through one great spell, and not through a host of minor, petti-fogging miracles.
God and Mr. Wells|William Archer

Of all developers it is most free from fogging propensities.
The Barnet Book of Photography|Various