diverging lens

American  

noun

Optics.

1. 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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• converging lens vs. diverging lens

Example Sentences

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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Note that the focal length and power of a diverging lens are defined to be negative.

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A ray passing through the center of either a converging or a diverging lens does not change direction.

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Does observed gravitational lensing correspond to a converging or diverging lens?

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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