Definitions for dioptrics

dioptrics di·op·trics

Spelling: [dahy-op-triks]
IPA: /daɪˈɒp trɪks/

Dioptrics is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 401 anagrams from letters in dioptrics (cdiioprst).

Definitions for dioptrics

noun

  1. the branch of geometrical optics dealing with the formation of images by lenses.

Origin of dioptrics

1635-45; see dioptric, -ics

Examples for dioptrics

The only other optical treatise written by Kepler, was his dioptrics, with an appendix on the use of optics in philosophy.

To this he turned his attention again in 1611, when he published a treatise on dioptrics.

In the dioptrics of Descartes, several other curious theorems are contained.

He applied this geometrical and inventive genius to dioptrics, which, when treated of by him, became a new art.

In dioptrics, is a geometrical solid bounded by three parallelograms, whose bases are equal triangles.

Catoptrics, which treats of the reflection of light, and dioptrics, which treats of its refraction.

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