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What does aplanatic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (optics, of an optical system) Free from, or corrected for, spherical aberration and chromatic aberration
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Device for measuring arterial stiffness by the aplanatic tonometry piece.
The aplanatic correction avoids the spherical deformation of what you see.
The aplanatic condenser is not corrected for color, hence objectionable color fringes are produced around the field of view diaphragm.
A lens in which the spherical aberration is corrected is said to be aplanatic.
These locations for which spherical correction has been optimized are called the aplanatic points.
It is shown to illustrate how a useful lens can be built using the aplanatic point of a sphere despite the fact that it lies within the glass.

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