object lens

American  

noun

Optics.

1. objective.

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Etymology

Origin of object lens

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

This is true of the Lick telescope, which has a magnifying power of 2,500 and an object lens a yard across.

From Lost on the Moon Or, in Quest of the Field of Diamonds by Rockwood, Roy

The field of the great object lens was already suffused with the radiance of her approach.

From At a Winter's Fire by Capes, Bernard Edward Joseph

The objective, or object lens, stands in front of the slide.

From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Williams, Archibald

Diameter of object lens 1-3/4 in., of ocular lens 1-1/8 in.

From Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers by Bedini, Silvio A.

She hardly observed that a tear descended slowly upon his cheek, a tear so large that it magnified the pores of the skin over which it rolled, like the object lens of a microscope.

From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Hardy, Thomas