Relating to or describing a lens or optical system that corrects for spherical aberration, producing clear, undistorted images.
From 'aplanat' (noun) plus '-ic' (suffix forming adjectives). Developed as technical terminology in optical physics during the 19th century.
The development of aplanatic lenses directly enabled modern microscopy and astronomy—better lenses meant seeing things humans had never seen before!
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