principal plane
nounOptics.
a plane that is perpendicular to the axis of a lens, mirror, or other optical system and at which rays diverging from a focal point are deviated parallel to the axis or at which rays parallel to the axis are deviated to converge to a focal point.
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How to use principal plane in a sentence
In our consideration of flexure it has so far been supposed that the bending takes place in a principal plane.
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