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What is a spherometer?

What is a spherometer? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A device used to measure the curvature of a surface, such as a lens.
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The glass is ground with emery to the correct spherical figure as given by a spherometer.
Before the grade of emery is changed all three surfaces must agree, as nearly, at least, as the spherometer will show.
The squares of glass are cemented to the roughing tool, and this is ground to the spherometer by means of the counterpart tool.
It is well to control this process by means of a spherometer, so that the desired radius may be approximately reached.
The spherometer is accepted at all stages of the process as the final arbiter as to curvature.
He made adaptors to convert Barker's RAS-thread eyepieces to push-fit, to the latter's delight, plus a fine spherometer for the mirror-maker Jos Slater.

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