reducing glass

noun

1. a lens or mirror that produces a virtual image of an object smaller than the object itself.

reducing glass

noun

1. a lens or curved mirror that produces an image smaller than the object observed

Example Sentences

Reducing glass sizes, then, does not keep people sober.

From Economist

While painting his designs, he looked through a reducing glass to see how his work would look when shrunk to about a sixth its actual size.

From New York Times

The great Flemish artists who produced them�Memling, Dirk Bouts, Roger van der Weyden and the brothers Van Eyk�held a reducing glass up to nature, painted serenely sweet and ordered little worlds.

From Time Magazine Archive

Figure it out yourself—look at it through a reducing glass.

From Project Gutenberg

There is a stretch where the trail leaves the valley road and zigzags up the face of the east bench to a height from which one may survey the whole sleeping valley of the Wimmenuche as through a reducing glass.

From Project Gutenberg