optical flint

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   optical glass of high dispersion and high refractive index

   Synonymsflint glass

   Broaderoptical glass

Questions about optical flint

What does optical flint mean?

optical flint means "optical glass of high dispersion and high refractive index".

What is another word for optical flint?

Close synonyms include flint glass. 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 flint a common word?

optical flint 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.