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eye has too little power so when the eye is relaxed, light is focused behind the retina. An eye with a refractive power in one
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close together, the optical power of the combined lenses is approximately equal to the sum of the optical powers of each lens:
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eye has too much power so light is focused in front of the retina. This is noted as a minus power. Conversely, a
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Illustration of the relationship between optical power in diopters and focal length in meters.
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is the condition in which one eye has a different refractive power than the other eye.
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that is different from the refractive power of the other meridians has
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Degree to which an optical system converges or diverges light
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that has too much or too little refractive power to
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Index

Refractive power
Magnification
Radiant flux
Luminous flux

optics
lens
mirror
reciprocal
focal length
inverse metre
dioptre
Converging lenses
diverging lenses
refractive medium
thin lenses
optometry
eye
focus
retina
refractive error
myopic
hyperopic
meridian
astigmatism
Anisometropia
Accommodation of the eye
Lens clock
Lensmeter
Plate scale

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