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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Example Sentences

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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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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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