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Значения термина achromatism на английском

The visual property of being without chromatic color.

      The total inability to perceive colors.

          Синонимы
          Examples for "colourlessness"
          Examples for "colourlessness"
          1
          There was something about its very colourlessness which made it sound oracular.
          O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
          2
          He had a steely colourlessness, and a steely pliability, and a steely strength.
          Eminent Victorians
          3
          She was elderly, tall, and harshly thin, with a hard colourlessness of face.
          The Wind in the Rose-Bush, and Other Stories of the Supernatural
          4
          The brown flecks in the eyes seemed to spread and engulf the surrounding colourlessness.
          Cheerful—By Request
          5
          Odo suspected a certain colourlessness in the life she depicted.
          The Valley of Decision
          1
          Her sheeny hair and vivid makeup were dazzling against the colorlessness of the room.
          Another life altogether: a novel
          2
          She was clothed in velvet, which gave to her cheek and brow the colorlessness of marble.
          The Bronze Hand / 1897
          3
          The leached colorlessness, the depression in the forehead.
          Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
          4
          He exhaled noisily, letting the congregation know that he was sorry to fail them with his colorlessness.
          The Sirens of Titan
          5
          She looked very beautiful in her unconfined gown, the red tone heightening the creamy colorlessness of her face.
          Other Things Being Equal
          Использование термина achromatism на английском
          1
          He will find that he has not given exactly the proper curves to secure achromatism.
          Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science
          2
          This artifice is specially adopted in objectives for astronomical photography (''pure actinic achromatism'').
          The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
          3
          Soc., 1878), the most suitable for visual instruments (''optical achromatism,').
          The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
          4
          The absence of this error is termed achromatism, and an optical system so corrected is termed achromatic.
          The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
          5
          As the diameter of the lens was so small in comparison with its focal length, its want of achromatism was inappreciable.
          Experimental Determination of the Velocity of Light / Made at th...
          6
          His encounter with achromatism also seems to have left an impression of the disabled helping each other to cope, to learn, to advance.
          Wired
          7
          Newton failed to perceive the existence of media of different dispersive powers required by achromatism; consequently he constructed large reflectors instead of refractors.
          The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
          8
          For two thin lenses separated by a distance D the condition for achromatism is D = v1f1+v2f2; if v1=v2 (e.g.
          The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
          9
          Achromatic Eye-Pieces of Telescopes, and on the Achromatism of Microscopes.
          Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy
          10
          (This explains the gigantic focal lengths in vogue before the discovery of achromatism.)
          The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
          11
          In uniting three colours an ''achromatism of a higher order'' is derived; there is yet a residual ''tertiary spectrum,'' but it can always be neglected.
          The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
          Achromatism через время