stigmatism

  1. Noun.  (optics) Image-formation property of an optical system which focuses a single point source in object space into a single point in image space.
  2. Noun.  (medicine) Normal eyesight, anastigmatic state.
  3. Noun.  (pathology) State of having some stigmata.

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