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Definition of Convex lens

1. Noun. Lens such that a beam of light passing through it is brought to a point or focus.

Definition of Convex lens

1. Noun. (optics) A lens having at least one convex surface, such that light passing through it may be brought to a focus. ¹

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Medical Definition of Convex lens

1. A converging lens. Synonym: plus lens. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Convex Lens

Literary usage of Convex lens

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The microscope and its revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1856)
"1); a lens of this description is called a plano-convex lens; and it will hereafter be shown to possess properties, which render it very useful in the ..."

2. Manual of the diseases of the eye: For Students and General Practitioners by Charles Henry May (1901)
"Foci of a convex lens.—The point to which rays converge after refraction by a convex lens is called its ./V//.-. The principal focus is Üw fucus for ..."

3. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text-book for the Use by Denison Olmsted, Ebenezer Strong Snell (1871)
"In a double convex lens of equal curvatures, the aberration is 1.67; if the radii of curvature are as 1 : 6, and the most convex side ..."

4. A Text-book of Physics: Including a Collection of Examples and Questions by William Watson (1920)
"In the opposite case a concave lens is a converging lens, and vice versa. plane containing the axis of the three typical FIG. 331. forms of convex lens. ..."

5. Library of Useful Knowledge (1832)
"... a section of a plano-convex lens. Let the plane side Ъе exposed to parallel rays, and let aA be an extreme pencil of rays ; D the centre of curvature; ..."

6. A System of Natural Philosophy: In which are Explained the Principles of by John Lee Comstock (1854)
"The focal distance of a double-convex, lens, is the radius ... Hence the plano-convex lens, being one half of the double-convex lens, the latter has twice ..."

7. A System of Natural Philosophy: In which the Principles of Mechanics by John Lee Comstock (1835)
"convex lens. It has been shown in a former part of this article, ... 150, be considered the circumference of a sphere of which the plano-convex lens, ba, ..."

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