objective lens
Americannoun
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Optics. in a microscope or telescope, the lens or set of lenses at the end nearest the object in view.
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a way of looking at an issue, situation, etc., that minimizes subjective bias and maximizes objectivity.
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Miniondas covered community groups and festivals, as well as city politics with a more objective lens.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2024
The distance between the eyepiece and the objective lens is made slightly less than the sum of their focal lengths so that the first image is closer to the eyepiece than its focal length.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
He spun the telescope around and examined the objective lens.
From Scientific American • Oct. 24, 2013
Platforms are available: PerkinElmer in Waltham, Massachusetts, sells the Opera high-content screening system, which keeps the objective lens immersed in water.
From Nature • Feb. 9, 2011
The positive film is moved intermittently but swiftly throughout its length between the objective lens and a beam of light coming through the condenser, being exposed by the shutter during the periods of rest.
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis
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