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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

• DIVERGING LENS (noun)

Sense 1

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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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