chromatic aberration

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   an optical aberration in which the image has colored fringes

   Broaderaberration

Questions about chromatic aberration

What does chromatic aberration mean?

chromatic aberration means "an optical aberration in which the image has colored fringes".

Is chromatic aberration a common word?

chromatic aberration 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.