eye lens


nounOptics.
  1. the lens of an eyepiece closest to the eye.

Origin of eye lens

1
First recorded in 1870–75

Words Nearby eye lens

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How to use eye lens in a sentence

  • Special eyepieces are also obtainable having a sledging adjustment to the eye lens for focussing the micrometer.

  • The visual angle of an object is the angle at the eye lens between the rays that have come from the ends of the object.

    Physics | Willis Eugene Tower
  • It is difficult, however, to look at objects without automatically adjusting the eye lens so that it will make a sharp image.

    Physics | Willis Eugene Tower
  • It is due either to an eyeball that is elongated, or to an eye lens that is too convex, or to both conditions.

    Physics | Willis Eugene Tower
  • But there is still another, always up side down, which is the reflection from the back side of this same eye lens.

    Natural Wonders | Edwin Tenney Brewster