crown lens


nounOptics.
  1. a lens made of crown glass, usually used as the converging lens component of an achromatic lens.

Origin of crown lens

1
First recorded in 1825–35

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British Dictionary definitions for crown lens

crown lens

noun
  1. a lens made of optical crown, esp the optical-crown part of a compound achromatic lens

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