objective lens
Americannoun
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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
The Mesolens looks like an objective lens on steroids: “I would liken it to roughly the same length and width as an adult human arm,” McConnell says.
From Nature • Nov. 25, 2019
The first lens, called the objective lens, is just above the specimen.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018
He spun the telescope around and examined the objective lens.
From Scientific American • Oct. 24, 2013
In appearance it is somewhat different; indeed, it is in two parts, the one containing the lighting arrangements and condensing lens, and the other embracing the mechanism and objective lens.
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis
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