optic axis

noun
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NOUN
1

A line that passes through the center of curvature of a lens so that light is neither reflected nor refracted.

“in a normal eye the optic axis is the direction in which objects are seen most distinctly”

2

In a doubly refracting crystal, the line in the direction of which no double refraction occurs.

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