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Diverging Lens

Definition: Diverging Lens

Diverging Lens

Noun

1. A lens such that a parallel beam of light passing through it is caused to diverge or spread out.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Diverging Lens

Synonym: concave lens (n). (additional references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Diverging Lens

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

diverging lens

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Diverging Lens

Language Translations for "diverging lens"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

spredelinse (concave lens, negative lens). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

divergerende lens (negative lens). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kovera linssi (negative lens), hajottava linssi (negative lens). (various references)

   

French

  

lentille négative, lentille divergente. (various references)

   

German

  

Zerstreuungslinse (concave lens, negative lens). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αποκεντρωτικός φακός (negative lens), αποκλίνων φακός (negative lens). (various references)

   

Italian

  

lente divergente (negative lens). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ivergingday enslay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

lente divergente (negative lens). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

lente divergente (negative lens). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Diverging Lens

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-g-i-i-l-n-n-r-s-v"

-2 letters: desilvering, redesigning.

-3 letters: delivering, drivelines, energising, engirdling, greenlings, inveiglers, ridgelines, ridgelings.

-4 letters: deserving, designing, deveining, devilries, dieseling, diverging, driveline, driveling, elegising, engilding, engirding, engirdles, gendering, gingelies, greenings, greenling, indigenes, inveigled, inveigler, inveigles, lingeries, lingering, needlings, niderings, redlining, reedlings, regilding, relending, relieving, resending, resigning, revenging, ridgeline, ridgeling, ridglings, sideliner, silvering, slivering, sniggered, sniveling.

-5 letters: deigning.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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