Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
free from or corrected for spherical aberration;
- Example: "an aplanatic mirror"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Aplanatic \Ap`la*nat"ic\, a. [Gr. 'a priv. + ? disposed to
wander, wandering, ? to wander.] (Opt.)
Having two or more parts of different curvatures, so combined
as to remove spherical aberration; -- said of a lens.
[1913 Webster]
Aplanatic focus of a lens (Opt.), the point or focus from
which rays diverging pass the lens without spherical
aberration. In certain forms of lenses there are two such
foci; and it is by taking advantage of this fact that the
best aplanatic object glasses of microscopes are
constructed.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
aplanatic
adj 1: free from or corrected for spherical aberration; "an
aplanatic mirror"