pantoscopic tilt

pantoscopic tilt

an oblique astigmatism caused by slanting a spheric lens so that light rays strike the lens at a nonperpendicular angle, altering the spheric and cylindric refractive power of the lens.

pan·to·scop·ic tilt

(pan'tŏ-skop'ik tilt) An oblique astigmatism caused by slanting a spheric lens so that light rays strike the lens at a nonperpendicular angle, altering the spheric and cylindric refractive power of the lens.