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Lens

A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and the other plane, and commonly used, either singly or combined, in optical instruments, for changing the direction of rays of light, and thus magnifying objects, or otherwise modifying vision. In practice, the curved surfaces are usually spherical, though rarely cylindrical, or of some other figure.

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Channel 76% connected

The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.

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Line 76% connected

Flax; linen.

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Organ 76% connected

An instrument or medium by which some important action is performed, or an important end accomplished; as, legislatures, courts, armies, taxgatherers…

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Condenser 76% connected

One who, or that which, condenses.

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Contact 76% connected

A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

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Eyeglass 76% connected

A lens of glass to assist the sight. Eyeglasses are used singly or in pairs.

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Eyepiece 76% connected

The lens, or combination of lenses, at the eye end of a telescope or other optical instrument, through which the image formed by the mirror or object…

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Fresnel lens 76% connected

See under Lens.

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Meniscus 76% connected

A crescent.

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Monocle 76% connected

An eyeglass for one eye.

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Objective 76% connected

Of or pertaining to an object.

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Ocular 76% connected

Depending on, or perceived by, the eye; received by actual sight; personally seeing or having seen; as, ocular proof.

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Cortex 70% connected

Bark, as of a tree; hence, an outer covering.

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Eye 70% connected

A brood; as, an eye of pheasants.

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Oculus 70% connected

An eye; (Bot.) a leaf bud.

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Optic 70% connected

The organ of sight; an eye.

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