WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
cur′vature of field′, [Optics.]
- Opticsa monochromatic aberration of a lens or other optical system in which the focal surface is curved, the refracted image of an object oriented perpendicular to the axis of the lens lying on a curved surface rather than in a plane perpendicular to the axis.
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