compound lens meaning

Noun: compound lens  kómpawnd lenz

1. A lens system consisting of two or more lenses on the same axis

Derived forms: compound lenses

Type of: lens, lens system, lense [non-standard]

Encyclopedia: Compound lens

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1. Fresnel's new compound lenses were used for the observations across the English Channel.
2. The objective is usually in a cylinder housing containing a glass single or multi-element compound lens.
3. Net-casting spiders of genus " Deinopis " have their posterior median eyes enlarged into large forward-facing compound lenses.
4. :According to Lens ( optics ) # Compound lenses, the combined focal length of a pair of thin lenses of focal lengths f 1 and f 2 that are separated in air by a distance d is
5. But the important thing about this Protarlinse is that two of these lens units can be mounted in the same lens barrel to form a compound lens of even greater performance and larger aperture, between f / 6 . 3 and f / 7 . 7.