spherical aberration

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   an optical aberration resulting in a distorted image

   Broaderaberration

Questions about spherical aberration

What does spherical aberration mean?

spherical aberration means "an optical aberration resulting in a distorted image".

Is spherical aberration a common word?

spherical 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.