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glossary

Rigorous stigmatism: Property of certain optical systems for certain characteristic points of the object space such that all the rays coming from one of these points of the object space rigorously pass through a point of the image space (conjugate point) after transmission by the system optical
Weierstrass points: for an elliptic mirror or a spherical refracting surface, points of the optical axis which are rigorous conjugates of each other; for an elliptical mirror, the Weierstrass points are the foci of the ellipse
Magnification: transverse magnification ( in the calculation and tutorial pages )
Mirror: surface reflecting light rays symmetrically regarding the normal to the surface (specular reflexion) and therefore without scattering them
Effective focal length: algebraic distance from the primary/secondary principal plane of an optical system to its front/back focal plane