Usually means: Blur quality in out-of-focus areas.
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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. bokeh: Merriam-Webster
  2. bokeh: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Bokeh, bokeh: Wordnik
  4. bokeh: Wiktionary
  5. bokeh: Dictionary.com
  6. Bokeh (disambiguation), Bokeh (film), Bokeh: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. bokeh: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bokeh: Nikonians Photo Glossary
  2. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bokeh)

▸ noun:  (photography) A subjective aesthetic quality of out-of-focus areas of an image projected by a camera lens.

Similar:
ghost image, halation, focus, lensing, beta movement, ghost, perspective, eye of the beholder, bloom, hyperfocus, more...

Opposite:
sharp, clear, defined

Types:
hexagonal, octagonal, round, swirly, doughnut, more...

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Similar:
ghost image, halation, focus, lensing, beta movement, ghost, perspective, eye of the beholder, bloom, hyperfocus, more...

Opposite:
sharp, clear, defined

Types:
hexagonal, octagonal, round, swirly, doughnut, more...



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