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 result of that work is RUSH, an instrument that features a custom objective lens, a curved array of 35 cameras and a computational system that can capture and analyse data in real time.
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
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 Frank Lewis Dyer
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