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Definition of Lenses
1. lens [n] - See also: lens
Medical Definition of Lenses
1. Pieces of glass or other transparent materials used for magnification or increased visual acuity. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lenses
Literary usage of Lenses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"In a somewhat less degree accuracy of form and finish is required in spectacle
lenses. The following list comprises the usual forms of lenses in commercial ..."
2. Manual of the diseases of the eye by Charles Henry May (1901)
"Spherical lenses may be considered as made up of a number of ... In convex lenses
the prisms are placed with their buses to- i/i-tlii-r ..."
3. The Microscope: Its History, Construction, and Applications: Being a by Jabez Hogg (1886)
"lenses are usually defined as pieces of glass, or other transparent substances,
having their two surfaces so formed that the rays of light, ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1887)
"Instead of the lenses revolving round the central light two or more lights ...
The author uses two instead of six or eight lenses, and by intermitting the ..."
5. Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy by Augustin Privat-Deschanel (1898)
"Forms of lenses.—A lens is usually a piece of glass bounded by two ... Converging
lenses or convex lenses, which have one or other of the three forms ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The distance of the lenses should be 2. There should be a perforated diaphragm at
... (2) For an eyepiece of Ramsden's type the two lenses should be ..."
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