objective lens
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objective lenses
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Optics. in a microscope or telescope, the lens or set of lenses at the end nearest the object in view.
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a way of looking at an issue, situation, etc., that minimizes subjective bias and maximizes objectivity.
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Miniondas covered community groups and festivals, as well as city politics with a more objective lens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024
In conventional light-sheet microscopes, the laser beam is focused by its own objective lens, which is perpendicular to the detection objective.
From Nature ● Nov. 25, 2019
So it's essential to have one person who can filter those voices through an objective lens informed by science.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 14, 2018
The first lens, called the objective lens, is just above the specimen.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2018
This tube was parallel to the telescopic barrel containing the objective lens.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 by Various
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