optical aberration

1. 1.

   an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image

   Synonymsaberrationdistortion

   Broaderoptical phenomenon

   Narrowerchromatic aberrationspherical aberration

Questions about optical aberration

What does optical aberration mean?

optical aberration means "an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image".

What is another word for optical aberration?

Close synonyms include aberration, distortion. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is optical aberration a common word?

optical 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.