plano-concave

[ pley-noh-kon-keyv, -kon-keyv ]

adjectiveOptics.

pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and concave on the other.

Origin of plano-concave

First recorded in 1685–95; plano-¹ + concave

Words Nearby plano-concave

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How to use plano-concave in a sentence

The achromatic lens consists of a double convex lens of crown glass combined with a plano-concave lens of flint glass.
Physics | Willis Eugene Tower
And the correction is produced by the same plano-concave lens as that which corrects the spherical aberration.
An Elementary Text-book of the Microscope | John William Griffith
The chromatic combination consists of a convex lens of crown backed by a concave, or plano-concave, lens of flint.
Pleasures of the telescope | Garrett Serviss
If one of the radii becomes infinite, the lens is plano-concave (fig. 9, 5).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 4 | Various
I have made another only with a plano concave, without any kind of reflection, divers also by means of reflection.
Micrographia | Robert Hooke

British Dictionary definitions for plano-concave

plano-concave

/ (ˌpleɪnəʊˈkɒnkeɪv) /

adjective

(of a lens) having one side concave and the other side plane

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