confocal
1Confocal — Con*fo cal, a. (Math.) Having the same foci; as, confocal quadrics. [1913 Webster] …
2confocal — adj. m. TECH Microscope confocal: microscope à balayage laser permettant de réaliser des coupes optiques dans l épaisseur d un échantillon sans le couper, les images ainsi produites étant ensuite traitées par un ordinateur pour aboutir à une… …
3Confocal — (v. lat.), was einen gemeinschaftlichen Brennpunkt hat, so confocale Linien …
4Confocal — Confocal, lat., Linien mit gemeinschaftlichem Brennpunkt …
5confocal — [kän fō′kəl] adj. Math. having the same focus or focuses …
6Confocal — In geometry, confocal means having the same foci. For an optical cavity consisting of two mirrors, confocal means that they share their foci. If they are identical mirrors, their radius of curvature, Rmirror, equals L, where L is the distance… …
7confocal — adjective Date: 1867 having the same foci < confocal ellipses > < confocal lenses > • confocally adverb …
8confocal — See c. microscope. * * * con·fo·cal ( )kän fō kəl adj having the same foci <confocal lenses> con·fo·cal·ly kə lē adv * * * con·fo·cal (kon foґkəl) having the same focus …
9confocal — (ˈ)kän+ adjective Etymology: com + focal mathematics : having the same real or imaginary foci used of conic sections and of conicoids whose principal sections are confocal conics …
10Confocal microscopy — Diagnostics MeSH D018613 OPS 301 code 3 301 …
