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 object is slightly farther away from the objective lens than its focal length fo , producing a case 1 image that is larger than the object.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
He spun the telescope around and examined the objective lens.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 24, 2013
Platforms are available: PerkinElmer in Waltham, Massachusetts, sells the Opera high-content screening system, which keeps the objective lens immersed in water.
From Nature ● Feb. 9, 2011
A positive is made from the negative thus obtained, and is passed through an optical lantern, the images being thus successively projected through an objective lens upon a distant screen.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various
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