Aberration
From Psychology Wiki
Aberration has several meanings generally related to the idea of a deviation from the norm, from the usual:
In biology:
- An abnormality of chromosomes
In psychology:
- A disorder in one's behaviour or mental state. (see mental illness)
In optics:
- Aberration in optical systems, an effect that causes light from one point of an object after transmission through the system to arrive at different points
- Chromatic aberration, caused by a lens having a different refractive index for different wavelengths of light
- Defocus aberration, meaning out of focus
- Spherical aberration, an image imperfection that occurs due to the increased refraction of light rays that occurs when rays strike a lens or mirror near its edge
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