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Schmidt system
Schmidt sys·tem


noun 
Definition:
 
optical system: an optical system that uses a special concave spherical mirror to correct optical aberrations
[Mid-20th century. After Bernhard Voldemar Schmidt (1879-1935), Estonian-born German specialist in optics]
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