stray light

collocation in English

meaningsofstrayandlight

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stray
adjective[before noun]
uk
/streɪ/us
/streɪ/
Stray things have moved apart from similar things and are not in their expected or ...
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light
noun
uk
/laɪt/us
/laɪt/
the brightness that comes from the sun, fire, etc. and from electrical devices, and that allows things to ...
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(Definition ofstrayandlightfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Images were corrected for dark noise, spatial nonuniformities (mainly off-axis vignetting),straylight, and any wavelength-dependent variations in magnification or registration.
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Images were corrected for dark noise, spatial nonuniformities andstraylight.
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The aluminium scaffolding had been previously covered by a black cotton cloth to reducestraylightfrom the various lamps.
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The former problems require care when dealing with albino eyes, because of their reduced capacity to absorb anystraylight.
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Straylightfrom the driving laser was blocked by two 0.3 mm-thick aluminum filters.
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Its visibility can be greatly reduced by background light such as light pollution orstraylightfrom the moon.
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It is not yet known how thestraylightissue can be dealt with.
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Observatory lore holds that nose grease was used to reducestraylightand reflections in transmissive telescopes before the development of vacuum antireflective coatings.
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In this sensestraylightis light from other sources that is focused to the same place as the faint object.
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The machine is constructed like this to decrease thestraylightfrom the upper beam that may strike the detector.
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No monochromator is perfect and it will transmit somestraylight, that is, light with other wavelengths than the targeted.
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When measuring at a 90 angle, only the light scattered by the sample causesstraylight.
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The scheme of detection is also more immune tostraylightetc.
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Methods have also been invented to measure and compensate forstraylightin spectrophotometers.
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Zemax can perform standard sequential ray tracing through optical elements, non-sequential ray tracing for analysis ofstraylight, and physical optics beam propagation.
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The cassette had a built-in dark slide to preventstraylightreaching the film when the disc was removed.
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Thestraylightlevel is one of the most critical specifications of an instrument.
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A hinged top-cover keeps the materials in close contact and reduces or eliminates the amount ofstraylightallowed into the darkroom.
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