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  a city in the Piedmont region of Italy, S of Turin: center of wine-producing region. Contemporary Examples The Acid Survivors Trust International (Asti) estimates there are approximately 1,500 acid attacks a year globally. Oscar-Winning ‘Saving Face’ Directors’ Battle to End Horror of Acid Attacks Shakthi Jothianandan March 7, 2012 Historical Examples But in the richness […]

• Asti spumante

  a sweet, sparkling Italian white wine with a muscat flavor. Historical Examples But mother turned up her nose as she sipped her glass of Asti spumante that accompanied the west-end dinner by way of champagne. The Promise of Air Algernon Blackwood It is now famous for its sparkling wine (Asti spumante), and is a considerable […]

• Astigmatic

  pertaining to, exhibiting, or correcting . a person who has . Historical Examples After all, an astigmatic parent, seeing Adolf in a dim light, might be impressed by him. The Man Upstairs P. G. Wodehouse They belonged to a person who was near-sighted and astigmatic in the left eye and almost certainly blind in the […]

• Astigmatic lens

  astigmatic lens astigmatic lens n. See cylindrical lens.

• Astigmatism

  Also called astigmia [uh-stig-mee-uh] /əˈstɪg mi ə/ (Show IPA). Ophthalmology. a refractive error of the eye in which parallel rays of light from an external source do not converge on a single focal point on the retina. Optics. an aberration of a lens or other optical system in which the image of a point is […]

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