optical center

American  

noun

Printing.

1. a point about ten percent above the exact center of a printed page or layout.

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Example Sentences

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

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

It is assumed that the photographer knows exactly what the focus of his lens is, and that he is able to measure accurately from its optical center.

From Bromide Printing and Enlarging A Practical Guide to the Making of Bromide Prints by Contact and Bromide Enlarging by Daylight and Artificial Light, With the Toning of Bromide Prints and Enlargements by Tennant, John A.

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

Yes; it is easy to understand that for the same time of exposure, and consequently for the same result, the aperture may be so much the smaller in proportion as the optical center is approached.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 by Various