limit of resolution

noun

, Optics.

1. the capacity of an optical system to resolve point objects as separate images.

Example Sentences

Neutrino experiments are hard, and systematic errors at the limit of resolution can be significant.

From Scientific American

Although the theoretical limit of resolution for a three-foot aperture is not reached in these observations, I do not think the mirror can do any better.

From Project Gutenberg

In the case of the telescope we have to deal with a linear measure of aperture and an angular limit of resolution, whereas in the case of the microscope the limit of resolution is linear, and it is expressed in terms of angular aperture.

From Project Gutenberg

But although the argument from gratings is instructive and convenient in some respects, its use has tended to obscure the essential unity of the principle of the limit of resolution whether applied to telescopes or microscopes.

From Project Gutenberg