Aberration

{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-000040",
  "term": "Aberration",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A deviation from ideal image formation in an optical system, causing the image to be imperfectly reproduced. These imperfections arise from the physical properties of light and lenses, preventing a perfect point-to-point correspondence between object and image. Aberrations can be monochromatic, such as spherical aberration, or chromatic, like color fringing.",
  "subject": "Optics and imaging",
  "see_also": [
    "chromatic aberration",
    "lateral aberration",
    "longitudinal aberration",
    "spherical aberration"
  ],
  "references": [
    "aberration - definition and meaning (Wordnik)"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "de": "Aberration",
    "es": "aberración",
    "fr": "aberration"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/aberration/"
}