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spherical aberration

(Science: microscopy) A lens defect in which image forming rays passing through the outer zones of the lens focus at a distance from the principal plane, different from that of the rays passing through the centre of the lens.

The aberration caused by (near-paraxial) monochromatic light rays or electron beams passing through different radii of a lens not coming to the same focus.