ommatidium|ommatidia in English
noun
['ɑmə'tɪdɪəm /'ɒm-]
single part of a compound eye in arthropods (Zoology)
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1. The angle of divergence between optical axes of the ommatidia (morphological visual acuity) ranges from 9° to 10°.
2. Acone definition is - having ommatidia that lack the crystalline cone of the lens system and that form the image by apposition.
3. Apposition eye definition is - a compound eye that is characteristic of diurnal insects and in which entering light reaches the retina of each ommatidium as a …
4. The divergence angle between visual units as measured by these functional methods (10.3 °) is close to the anatomical entrance angle for the ommatidia (10.5 °).