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
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
I got well away from stragglers and took out my mirroscope, pointing if off in the distance and swinging the objective lens around until it centered on them.
From The Old Martians by Roger Phillips Graham
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