diverging lens

noun

Optics.

a lens that causes a beam of parallel rays to diverge after refraction, as from a virtual image; a lens that has a negative focal length.

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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.