Compact disc players use an astigmatic lens for focusing. From LearnThat.org. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astigmatism]
The astigmatic test at a local Wal-Mart Vision Center. From Wordnik.com. [The astigmatic test at a local Wal-Mart Vision Center] Reference
With raindrops bouncing off your astigmatic eyeballs, it's difficult to tell. From Wordnik.com. [Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas]
Apart from the fact that my eyes were a little astigmatic by nature, as it was. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
Of six cows, five were hypermetropic and astigmatic and one was slightly myopic. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891] Reference
The curvature of the eyeball in the astigmatic eye is greater in one meridian than in the opposite. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
Conclusion: the lens is astigmatic, or the objective is not adjusted to be co-axial with the eyepiece. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
What is the meaning of these words: atavism; penumbra; semaphore; astigmatic; insouciance; mise-en-scene; kinetic?. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Because we are born farsighted, nearsighted, and astigmatic, we must be watchful to eradicate conditions that aggravate these troubles. From Wordnik.com. [Civics and Health] Reference
I'm pretty seriously astigmatic, and prone to eyestrain headaches, and I find white text or grey text on black painful and hard to read. From Wordnik.com. [Fade to Black, Back in Black, Back to Black... - And She Knits Too!] Reference
It is not by any means possible for a layman to be able always to inform himself that he is astigmatic, unless the defect is considerable. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
He'll gaze into your squinting, astigmatic eyes and fall in love with you because you're special, just like your mother always said you were. From Wordnik.com. [Laurie Kilmartin: 23/6 Ladytorial: Humanizing Hillary] Reference
Nietzsche was an inveterate enemy of efficiency, astigmatic with regard to practical life, and he never worked out a philosophy in the accepted sense of the term. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe] Reference
This boy is far sighted and astigmatic; glasses will correct his defect, and it will be interesting to note whether his eyes will eventually grow into near sighted ones. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891] Reference
Mr. Batch had the frontal bone of a clerk, the horn-rimmed glasses of the literarily astigmatic, and the sartorial perfection that only the rich can afford not to attain. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
The eyes of five rats examined gave the following result: Some were far sighted, others were hypermetropic and astigmatic, one was slightly myopic and one had mixed astigmatism. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891] Reference
I have an arrythmatic heart and an astigmatic eye. From Wordnik.com. [The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent.] Reference
Was the editor's inner vision really so curiously astigmatic?. From Wordnik.com. [Queed] Reference
Good thing too, 'cos I. m right-eye dominant and left-eye astigmatic. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
Pictures that stand the test of time do not demand astigmatic glasses. From Wordnik.com. [Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures] Reference
I am excited to also offer my astigmatic patients the same benefits with the. From Wordnik.com. [CooperVision Announces Roll-Out of Avaira® Toric Contact Lenses - Yahoo! Finance] Reference
"No trace of chromatic, spherical, or astigmatic aberration," he reported in surprise. From Wordnik.com. [Skylark Three] Reference
After all, an astigmatic parent, seeing Adolf in a dim light, might be impressed by him. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Upstairs and Other Stories] Reference
He jerked it back again, and the thing looked as if it had been hung in a dim light by an astigmatic drunkard. From Wordnik.com. [Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm] Reference
To be accounted strictly moral, "continued Smith," an editor must be blind in one eye and astigmatic in the other. From Wordnik.com. [Captivating Mary Carstairs] Reference
To my (admittedly slightly astigmatic) eye, the DJI turns prior to the VIX in three or four of the five examples he cites. From Wordnik.com. [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference
Looking at the picture of a young girl with a cat by Henri-Matisse, he exclaimed -- "I see how it is, the fellow's astigmatic.". From Wordnik.com. [Art] Reference
I can't be the only astigmatic who would prefer not to have to choose between wearing her own glasses and seeing a blurry movie. From Wordnik.com. [whoar.co.nz] Reference
Hydraclear, revolutionary Accelerated Stabilization Design (ASD) to give astigmatic patients constant, stable control of their vision. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Business News] Reference
This can considerably reduce the patients 'need for thick and cumbersome eyeglasses or problematic contact lenses which are traditionally worn by astigmatic patients. From Wordnik.com. [EzineArticles] Reference
And of course, it wouldn’t come properly to a focus; it was astigmatic. From Wordnik.com. [A Grand and Bold Thing] Reference
The Party had attached astigmatic label to her kongzhi shi-yong, which meant 'employed but under control and surveillance. ". From Wordnik.com. [WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA]
(Or at least robbed astigmatic.). From Wordnik.com. [Joystiq] Reference
Compared to Fenn, lynxes were astigmatic. From Wordnik.com. [The Head of Kay's] Reference
Of that astigmatic wizard. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 23, 1919] Reference
Kitten's sight had been astigmatic ... ". From Wordnik.com. [The Ffolliots of Redmarley] Reference
Hindsight is always keen, isn't it, while foresight stays myopic, astigmatic, strabismic, and drunk. From Wordnik.com. [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]
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