a. [f. CATA- in CATOPTRIC + DIOPTRIC. Cf. F. catadioptrique.] Pertaining to or involving both the reflexion and the refraction of light.
1723. Hadley, in Phil. Trans. (title), An Account of the Catadioptric or Reflecting Telescope, made by him.
1759. Gentl. Mag., 72. Mr. Dollond’s new catadioptric Micrometer.
1866. Reader, 3 Nov., 973. A catadioptric apparatus, in which lenses are combined with totally reflecting prisms.
So Catadioptrics, the science of catadioptric phenomena.
1755. Gentl. Mag., XXV. 30/2. A … work on Catadioptrics, which he began about the year 1723.
