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COMPOUND LENS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does compound lens mean?
• COMPOUND LENS (noun)
The noun COMPOUND LENS has 1 sense:
1. a lens system consisting of two or more lenses on the same axis
Familiarity information: COMPOUND LENS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A lens system consisting of two or more lenses on the same axis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("compound lens" is a kind of...):
lens; lens system; lense (a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "compound lens"):
achromatic lens (a compound lens system that forms an image free from chromatic aberration)
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