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Achromatism
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
(Gr. a-, privative, xpcopa, colour), in optics,, the property of transmitting white light, without decomposing it into the colours of the spectrum; "achromatic lenses" are lenses which possess this property. (See LENS, ABERRATION and PHOTOGRAPHY.)
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Achromatism'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/a/achromatism.html. 1910.