dioptry

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dioptry (plural dioptries)

(obsolete) Alternative form of diopter
- 1900, Charles Frederick Prentice, Ophthalmic lenses‎^[1]:
  The Dioptral System of numbering prisms alone possesses the great desideratum of establishing a direct and simple relation between the prism-dioptry and the lens-dioptry, as demonstrated by the authors' law, that "a lens decentered one centimeter will produce as many prism-dioptry as the lens has dioptry of refraction."
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, “Macabru”, in Monsieur‎^[2], New York: Viking, published 1975, page 176:
  They also shared a fearful myopia of identical dioptry, were apt to bump into inanimate objects, sit down on invisible chairs, or bounce off each other as they shambled about talking and gesticulating.