One who, or that which, condenses.
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Lense
a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images
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A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.
Used in the same subject area: Physics, Optics, Art and design, Photography.A lens of glass to assist the sight. Eyeglasses are used singly or in pairs.
Used in the same subject area: Physics, Optics, Art and design, Photography.The lens, or combination of lenses, at the eye end of a telescope or other optical instrument, through which the image formed by the m…
Used in the same subject area: Physics, Optics, Art and design, Photography.See under Lens.
Used in the same subject area: Physics, Optics, Art and design, Photography.A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and the…
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 crescent.
Used in the same subject area: Physics, Optics, Art and design, Photography.An eyeglass for one eye.
Used in the same subject area: Physics, Optics, Art and design, Photography.Of or pertaining to an object.
Used in the same subject area: Physics, Optics, Art and design, Photography.Depending on, or perceived by, the eye; received by actual sight; personally seeing or having seen; as, ocular proof.
Used in the same subject area: Physics, Optics, Art and design, Photography.A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objec…
Used in the same subject area: Physics, Art and design.See Color.
Used in the same subject area: Physics, Art and design.That quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose.
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.The deflection and decomposition of light in passing by the edges of opaque bodies or through narrow slits, causing the appearance of…
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To go astray; to diverge.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, optical, device, converge, diverge.A constellation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, optical, device, converge, diverge.A defect of the eye or of a lens, in consequence of which the rays derived from one point are not brought to a single focal point, thu…
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.To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought…
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 part into two branches; to become bifid; to fork.
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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