diverging lens
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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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This is a case 3 image, formed for any object by a negative focal length or diverging lens.
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The diverging lens partially corrects this, although it is usually not possible to do so completely.
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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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