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Definition of Field lens
1. Noun. The lens that is farthest from the eye in an optical device with more than one lens.
Medical Definition of Field lens
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Field Lens
Literary usage of Field lens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Achromatic combinations have been substituted in some cases for the field-lens,
in others for the eye-lens, in others for both simple, lenses of the Ramsden ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1877)
"Kellner brought the field-lens into the focus of the eye-lens, made the latter
achromatic, and chose such curvatures as to remove the spherical aberration ..."
3. The Microscope: An Illustrated Monthly Designed to Popularize the Subject of (1892)
"They consist of two lenses: a large one nearest the object-glass, called the
field lens, and a small one nearest the eye, called the eye lens. ..."
4. Elementary Treatise on Physics, Experimental and Applied by Adolphe Ganot (1893)
"It easily follows from this thru the image of the point d would, but for the
interposition of the field-lens, be formed at D, which is so situated that CD ..."
5. Scientific Papers by John William Strutt Rayleigh (1900)
"The ideal position for the field-lens is at the focal plane of the object-glass.
... If the field-lens and the eye-lens have nearly the same focal length an ..."
6. The Microscope: An Introduction to Microscopic Methods and to Histology by Simon Henry Gage (1920)
"Remove the field-lens and focus the ocular micrometer lines by raising or ...
For getting the independent magnification of the objective the field-lens of ..."
7. Light for Students by Edwin Edser (1920)
"F is termed the field-lens, since it enlarges the field of view ; E is termed
the eye-lens. The two rays, shown as diverging from one extremity, A, ..."