Associations to the word «Dioptric»

Wiktionary

DIOPTRIC, adjective. (obsolete) Pertaining to a diopter.
DIOPTRIC, adjective. Acting as a medium for sight; making use of refraction (of lenses, etc.).
DIOPTRIC, adjective. (obsolete) Capable of being seen through.
DIOPTRIC, noun. (in the plural) The branch of optics concerned with refraction.
DIOPTRIC, noun. A dioptric telescope.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats