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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.

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Figure 25.38 Ray tracing predicts the image location and size for a concave or 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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Figure 25.37 A car viewed through a concave or diverging lens looks upright.

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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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