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ho·rop·ter | \ hə-ˈräp-tər, hȯ- 
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\Medical Definition of horopter
: the locus of points in external space whose images are formed on corresponding places of the two retinas and which are seen single
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horopteric \ ˌhȯ-ˌräp-ˈter-ik \ adjective
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