Definition of Converging lens

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

Exact synonyms: Convex Lens
Generic synonyms: Lens, Lens System, Lense
Specialized synonyms: Sunglass

Lexicographical Neighbors of Converging Lens

convergency
convergent
convergent evolution
convergent extension
convergent sequence
convergent sequences
convergent series
convergent squint
convergent strabismus
convergent thinker
convergent thinking
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convergents
converges
converging
converging lens (current term)
converging meniscus
conversa
conversable
conversableness
conversably
conversance
conversances
conversancies
conversancy
conversant(p)
conversantly
conversate
conversated

Literary usage of Converging lens

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

1. A Handbook of Physics Measurements by Ervin Sidney Ferry, Oscar William Silvey, George William Sherman, David Christie Duncan (1918)
"Determination of the Principal Focal Lengths, the Chromatic Aberration and the Longitudinal Spherical Aberration of a converging lens THEORY OF THE ..."

2. Contributions to Photographic Optics by Otto Lummer (1900)
"... IV FORMATION OF THE IMAGE BY A SIMPLE converging lens BY placing a simple magnifying lens behind the aperture of a camera, Giambattista della ..."

3. A Laboratory Manual of Physics for Use in High Schools by Henry Crew, Robert Richardson Tatnall (1902)
"Study of a converging lens References.—CREW, 349-353; ROWLAND AND AMES, 148; ... To study the image formed by a converging lens; and at the same time to ..."

4. A Laboratory Manual in Physics: To Accompany Black and Davis' "Practical by Newton Henry Black (1913)
"... EXPERIMENT 46 FOCAL LENGTH AND CONJUGATE FOCI OF A converging lens How far is the picture of a distant object from a convex lens? ..."

5. Physical Laboratory Handbook by George Arthur Hoadley (1909)
"EXPERIMENT 61 To determine the Focal Length of a converging lens. El. of Phys., p. ... EXPERIMENT 62 Conjugate Foci of a converging lens. El. of Phys., p. ..."

6. First Principles of Physics by Henry Smith Carhart, Horatio Nelson Chute (1912)
"If one half of a converging lens is covered by an opaque card, what will be the effect on the real image ? 6. When an object moves from a great distance up ..."

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