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ACHROMATISM (Gr. a-, privative, xpiaµ...

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 145 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ACHROMATISM (Gr. a-, privative, xpiaµa, See also:colour) , in See also:optics, the See also:property of transmitting See also:white See also:light, without decomposing it into the See also:colours of the spectrum; " achromatic lenses are lenses which possess this property .

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