| dialytic | Having the quality of unloosing or separating. Dialytic telescope, an achromatic telescope in which the coloured dispersion produced by a single object lens of crown glass is corrected by a smaller concave lens, or combination of lenses, of high dispersive power, placed at a distance in the narrower part of the converging cone of rays, usually near the middle of the tube. Origin: Gr, fr. See Dialysis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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