optical center
Americannoun
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Scientists believe high-energy cosmic rays impacting on the eye's retina or the brain's optical center cause the flashes.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ratio of the apertures that give the same results at the optical center or behind the objective is as that of the diaphragm employed to that of the back lens.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 by Various
A method was then referred to of making a rapid portrait lens cover a very large angle by pivoting at its optical center and traversing the plate in the manner of the pantoscopic camera.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 by Various
The most convenient ray to choose would be one passing through O, the optical center of the lens, because such a ray passes through the lens unchanged in direction, as is clear from Figure 74.
From General Science by Clark, Bertha M.
Upon placing the guillotine shutter in the optical center of the objective, what will occur?
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 by Various
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