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Definition: Converging Lens |
Converging LensNoun1. Lens such that a beam of light passing through it is brought to a point or focus. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | A lens that has a positive focal length, and therefore causes rays of light parallel to its axis to converge. Source: European Union. (references) |
Fine Arts | Lens which is thicker in the middle than at the edge, having at least one convex surface. Also known as a converging lens, it is capable of forming a real image, i. e. one that can be focused on a screen. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: Converging LensSynonym: convex lens (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Converging Lens |
| English words defined with "converging lens": compound microscope. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "converging lens": Badal optometer, Badal's optometer ♦ positive lens. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
converging lens | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "converging lens"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | samlelinse (convex lens, positive lens). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | convergerende lens (positive lens). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kupera linssi (positive lens), kokoava linssi (collecting lens, collective lens, positive lens). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | lentille positive, lentille convergente. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | konvergierende Linse (positive lens). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | συγκεντρωτικός φακός (collecting lens, collective lens, positive lens), συγκλίνων φακός (collecting lens, collective lens, positive lens). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | lente convergente (positive lens). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onvergingcay enslay lente convergente (positive lens). (various references) lente convergente (positive lens). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-g-g-i-l-n-n-n-o-r-s-v" | |
-3 letters: ensorceling, reconvening. | |
-4 letters: conserving, converging, conversing, greenlings. | |
-5 letters: censoring, congeeing, congeners, congeries, connivers, consignee, conveners, convening, converges, coverings, creneling, eloigners, enclosing, governing, greenings, greenling, groveling, innersole, insolence, necrosing, nonsigner, recension, recognise, resolving, revenging, screening, secerning, sovereign, vernicles, vignerons, violences. | |
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