holophotal

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English

Etymology

From holo- +‎ photo- +‎ -al.

Adjective

holophotal (not comparable)

  1. (optics, archaic) Causing no loss of light; applied to reflectors which throw back the rays of light without perceptible loss.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for holophotal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)