achromatic lens

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   a compound lens system that forms an image free from chromatic aberration

   Broadercompound lens

Questions about achromatic lens

What does achromatic lens mean?

achromatic lens means "a compound lens system that forms an image free from chromatic aberration".

Is achromatic lens a common word?

achromatic lens is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.