achromatic prism

noun

: a prism made by combining two or more prisms of different refractive index so designed and placed that a ray of white or other nonhomogeneous light passing through the prism is deviated but not dispersed into a spectrum compare amici prism

Word History

First Known Use

1802, in the meaning defined above

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