overfoggedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

overfogged (comparative more overfogged, superlative most overfogged)

1. (optics) Having a focal point that is in front of the retina or observer; myopic.
   • 1932, American Medical Association. Section on Ophthalmology, Transactions - Volume 83, page 73:

     After noting the visual acuity without glass, the patient is greatly overfogged — to a point where vision is not more than 6/80.

   • 1952, Sylvester Judd Beach, Principles of Refraction, page 97:

     Therefore, if the rest of the correction is accurate, the cause of greater impairment in one eye is probably that it is overfogged.

   • 2006, William J. Benjamin, Borish's Clinical Refraction:

     The contrast between the sharply focused vertical line and the blurred horizontal line is maximized. If the eye is underfogged or overfogged, the light distributions of the retinal images of point sources will be oval.

2. Containing too much fog.
   • 1977, Thomas Howard James, The Theory of the Photographic Process, page 189:

     Clearly, if the emulsion is overfogged it will be slow, since the number of holes required to bleach all developable centers will be larger; if underfogged, it will be fast but low in maximum density.

   • 2007, Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power:

     Proper understanding of airflow within the inlet duct to optimize the distribution of fog nozzles in order to avoid underfogged and overfogged areas.

   • 2014, Daniel B. Sharp, Between Nostalgia and Apocalypse: Popular Music and the Staging of Brazil, page 121:

     On the video footage that I recorded, Ciço was in rare form, weaving among the other players on the overfogged stage, bantering to the crowd, placing his hand on Assis's shoulder and singing a line to him.