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diopter

noun di·op·ter

Medical Definition of DIOPTER

:  a unit of measurement of the refractive power of a lens equal to the reciprocal of the focal length in meters

Variants of DIOPTER

di·op·ter or chiefly British di·op·tre \dī-ˈäp-tər, ˈdī-ˌäp-\

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