Airy disc
(US Airy disk) Mathematics and Physics
noun
The circular diffraction pattern formed when plane light waves pass through a point aperture; the bright central region of this.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Transactions Optical Society. Described by Airy in Trans. Cambr. Philos. Soc. 5 285.
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