converging lens

American  

noun

Optics.

1. a lens that converts parallel rays of light to convergent rays and produces a real image.

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Consider an object some distance away from a converging lens, as shown in Figure 25.32.

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For example, a powerful converging lens will focus parallel light rays closer to itself and will have a smaller focal length than a weak lens.

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For a converging lens, the focal point is the point at which converging light rays cross; for a diverging lens, the focal point is the point from which diverging light rays appear to originate.

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A ray entering a converging lens through its focal point exits parallel to its axis.

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Toward this aperture there may be moved either a converging lens of five dioptries or a diverging lens of the same diameter, but of six dioptries.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 by Various