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DIVERGING LENS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does diverging lens mean?
• DIVERGING LENS (noun)
The noun DIVERGING LENS has 1 sense:
1. a lens such that a parallel beam of light passing through it is caused to diverge or spread out
Familiarity information: DIVERGING LENS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A lens such that a parallel beam of light passing through it is caused to diverge or spread out
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
concave lens; diverging lens
Hypernyms ("diverging lens" is a kind of...):
lens; lens system; lense (a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images)
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