diverging lens
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Figure 26.6 Correction of nearsightedness requires a diverging lens that compensates for the overconvergence by the eye.
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Figure 25.37 A car viewed through a concave or diverging lens looks upright.
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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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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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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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