lens used to concentrate light on an object
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a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images
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a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication
Used in the same subject area: Physics, Optics, Art and design, Photography.lens for correcting defective vision in one eye; held in place by facial muscles
Used in the same subject area: Physics, Optics, Art and design, Photography.combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments
Used in the same subject area: Physics, Optics, Art and design, Photography.lens composed of a number of small lenses arranged to make a lightweight lens of large diameter and short focal length
Used in the same subject area: Physics, Optics, Art and design, Photography.a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images
Used in the same subject area: Physics, Optics, Art and design, Photography.a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images
Used in the same subject area: Physics, Optics, Art and design, Photography.(optics) a lens that is concave on one side and convex on the other
Used in the same subject area: Physics, Optics, Art and design, Photography.lens for correcting defective vision in one eye; held in place by facial muscles
Used in the same subject area: Physics, Optics, Art and design, Photography.the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed
Used in the same subject area: Physics, Optics, Art and design, Photography.combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments
Used in the same subject area: Physics, Optics, Art and design, Photography.(physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction; "each flavor of quarks comes in three col…
Used in the same subject area: Physics, Art and design.(physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction; "each flavor of quarks comes in three col…
Used in the same subject area: Physics, Art and design.(physics) the six kinds of quarks
Used in the same subject area: Physics, Art and design.(physics) the six kinds of quarks
Used in the same subject area: Physics, Art and design.(physics) an ideal space in which the coordinate dimensions represent the variables that are required to describe a system or substanc…
Used in the same subject area: Physics, Art and design.the distribution of colors produced when light is dispersed by a prism
Used in the same subject area: Physics, Optics.when light passes sharp edges or goes through narrow slits the rays are deflected and produce fringes of light and dark bands
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To go astray; to diverge.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, optical, device, converge, diverge.An optical property of some crystals which exhibit a star-shaped by reflected light, as star sapphire, or by transmitted light, as som…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, optical, device, converge, diverge.(optics) defect in an optical system in which light rays from a single point fail to converge in a single focal point
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, optical, device, converge, diverge.A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, optical, device, converge, diverge.To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, optical, device, converge, diverge.To tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together; as, lines converge.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, optical, device, converge, diverge.of Converge
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, optical, device, converge, diverge.of Converge
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, optical, device, converge, diverge.To converge to one point or focus, as light or rays.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, optical, device, converge, diverge.To go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, optical, device, converge, diverge.Device. See Device.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, optical, device, converge, diverge.A mode of scenic representation, invented by Daguerre and Bouton, in which a painting is seen from a distance through a large opening.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, optical, device, converge, diverge.To diverge; to be divaricate.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, optical, device, converge, diverge.To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to…
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Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, optical, device, converge, diverge.
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