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chromatic aberration

a property of lenses that causes the various colors in a beam of light to be focused at different points, thus causing a margin of colors to appear around the edges of the image

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noun
Color distortion in an image produced by a lens, caused by the inability of the lens to bring the various colors of light to focus at a single point.

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