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What does achromatic mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word achromatic? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (optics) Free from color; transmitting light without color-related distortion.
  2. Containing components such as achromatic lenses and prisms, designed to prevent color-related distortion.
  3. (biology) Uncolored; not absorbing color from a fluid; -- said of tissue
  4. (music) Having only the diatonic notes of the scale; not modified by accidentals.
  5. Being achromatic in subject
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To correct for spherical aberration in lenses, achromatic lenses can be used.
The objectives are adopted by poly-membrane achromatic lenses and collocated with widefield eyepieces.
The superior achromatic lenses will show you color and details you have never seen before in both your antique and self-made stereo views.
The 'Barlow lens', a modification of this telescope lens, is a negative achromatic combination of flint glass and crown glass.
This stark and achromatic poem is a world away from the graceful and well-tuned lyrics with which Campbell began his career.
The system had to be achromatic and diffraction limited for two specific wavelengths spaced about 35 nm apart.

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