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diverging lens

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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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A ray that enters a diverging lens by heading toward the focal point on the opposite side exits parallel to the axis.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

The diverging lens produces an image closer to the eye than the object, so that the nearsighted person can see it clearly.

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A lens that causes the light rays to bend away from its axis is called a diverging lens.

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This is a case 3 image, formed for any object by a negative focal length 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

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