From: r_delaney2001@yahoo.com   
      
   On November 27, Joe Gwinn wrote:   
   >> I visited an opthol... an eye doctor yesterday, he said   
   >> I have a 1.5 refractive index.   
   >> What does that mean, in opthol... eye medicine?   
   >   
   > The refractive index of pure water is 1.333 and of fused silica   
   > 1.4585, so 1.5 would be difficult for an eye; these are more like 1.40   
   > In this context, an eye doctor probably means diopters.   
      
   Sounds like a case of jargonitis.   
   Like, aberration has a handful of definitions -   
      
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