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The 14 pages that link to Chromatic aberration, each with the reason it gives.

• Reflecting telescopeCompared with: A reflecting telescope’s mirror brings wavelengths to a common focus without this lens defect.

• Chromatic adaptationCompared with: Unlike adaptation, it arises from the eye's optics rather than neural adjustment to illumination.

• Optical aberrationBroader topic: It arises because optical materials bend wavelengths by different amounts.

• Refracting telescopeCompared with: It is a defining optical drawback that mirror-based telescopes largely avoid.

• Dispersion (optics)Related: The same dispersion that separates colors in prisms blurs images formed by lenses.

• Optical telescopeRelated: It is a characteristic limitation of refracting telescope objectives.

• DispersionRelated: Wavelength-dependent refraction spreads colors out of focus in lenses.

• Achromatic lensRelated: The color fringing it produces is the primary defect an achromatic lens is designed to reduce.

• Spherical aberrationCompared with: It separates colors because of wavelength, not because rays cross different surface zones.

• Objective lensRelated: Achromat and apochromat objectives differ in how well they correct wavelength-dependent errors.

• Abbe numberRelated: Material dispersion, indicated by the Abbe number, contributes directly to this error.

• Focus (optics)Broader topic: Different wavelengths may converge at different foci in a refracting system.

• Thin lensRelated: A single focal length cannot describe a real lens equally well for every color.

• History of the telescopeRelated: It limited early refractors and helped motivate reflective designs.