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Dialytic
Pronunciation : Di`a*lyt"ic
Part of Speech : a.
Etymology : [Gr. Dialysis.]
Definition : Defn: Having the quality of unloosing or separating. Clarke. 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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