dialytic

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dialytic - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Dialytic \Di`a*lyt"ic\, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ?. See Dialysis.]
     Having the quality of unloosing or separating. --Clarke.
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     Dialytic telescope, an achromatic telescope in which the
        colored dispersion produced by a single object lens of
        crown glass is corrected by a smaller concave lens, or
        combination of lenses, of high dispersive power, placed at
        a distance in the narrower part of the converging cone of
        rays, usually near the middle of the tube.
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