diopters
Meaning of diopters
- a unit of refractive power, which is equal to the reciprocal of the focal length (in metres) of a given lens.
vision corrected to within one dioptre of perfect sight
late 16th century (originally as diopter, denoting an alidade): from French, from Latin dioptra, from Greek, from di- ‘through’ + optos ‘visible’. The term was used in the early 17th century to denote an ancient form of theodolite; the current sense dates from the late 19th century.
Information about diopters
- It is a name.
- The singular form of diopters is: diopter.
- Languages in which diopters is used:
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Hyphenation of diopters
diopters
- It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
- diopters is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Anagrams of diopters
dipteros, peridots, portside, proteids, protides, riposted, Sideport, Topsider, topsider, Triposed
Words that rhyme with diopters
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