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Dispersive   Listen
adjective
Dispersive  adj.  Tending to disperse.
Dispersive power (Opt.), the relative effect of a material in separating the different rays of light by refraction, as when the substance is formed into a prism.





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"Dispersive" Quotes from Famous Books



... unite in the axis point O'1; and those under an angle u2 in the axis point O'2. If there be refraction at a collective spherical surface, or through a thin positive lens, O'2 will lie in front of O'1 so long as the angle u2 is greater than u1 ("under correction''); and conversely with a dispersive surface or lenses ("over correction''). The caustic, in the first case, resembles the sign > (greater than); in the second K (less than). If the angle u1 be very small, O'1 is the Gaussian image; ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia


Words linked to "Dispersive" :   distributive, diffusive, disperse


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