ANACAMPTIC

ANACAMP'TIC, adjective [Gr. to bend.]1. Reflecting or reflected; a word formerly applied to that part of optics, which treats of reflection; the same as what is now called catoptric. [See Catoptrics.]2. anacamptic sounds, among the Greeks, were sounds produced by reflection, as in echoes; or such as proceeded downwards from acute to grave.

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An′a‐camp″tic (�), a. [] Reflecting of reflected; as, an anacamptic sound (and echo). ☞ The word was formerly applied to that part of optics which treats of reflection; the same as what is now called catoptric. See Catoptrics.