field lens

noun

a positive-powered lens or group of lenses that comes after the objective lens and before the image plane or the eyepiece, serving to change the size of the image

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Meanings

nounfield lens (plural field lenses)

plural field lenses

  1. engineeringa positive-powered lens or group of lenses that comes after the objective lens and before the image plane or the eyepiece, serving to change the size of the image
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