Home > Industry/Domain > Human rights

Human rights

Fundamental and universal rights and freedoms to which all human beings are entitled. They consist of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights that States are obliged to fully respect according to common standards ratified by national and international legislation.

0Categories 219Terms

Add a new term

Contributors in Human rights

Human rights >

Astigmatic power lens

Eyewear; Optometry

Lens bringing a paraxial pencil of parallel light to two separate line foci mutually at right angles and hence having vertex power in only the two principal meridians.

Astronomical telescope

Eyewear; Optometry

Compound optical system, afocal in normal adjustment, consisting of a positive objective element or group and a positive ocular element or group forming a magnified, inverted ...

Condensing lens

Eyewear; Optometry

A convex lens used to condense the illuminating beam into the patient's eye and to form a real inverted image of the retina thus illuminated.

Concave lens

Eyewear; Optometry

Lens which causes parallel incident light to diverge from a virtual focus. Also known as minus-power lens.

Abbe number

Eyewear; Optometry

Mathematical expression for determining the correction for chromatic aberration of an optical material of component.

Astigmatic difference

Eyewear; Optometry

Vertex power in the second principal meridian minus that in the first principal meridian.

Optical drive

Multimedia;

An optical drive is an electronic device used to seek, read, and write data on an optical disc. An optical drive may reside in an optical library or as a stand-alone unit.

Sub-categories