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
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 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
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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