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[[Category:2.2 Optical Apparatus]
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[[Category:IALA Dictionary 1970-89 Edition]]
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Revision as of 00:05, 25 February 2009

2-2-170

The horizontal plane through the focus of the optical apparatus of the light.

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Note: In lighthouse practice in some countries the term "focal plane" is used with the above meaning, although this is quite a different meaning from that of 2-2-165.




Please note that this is the term as it stands in the original IALA Dictionary edition (1970-1989)