ALL meanings of objective-lens
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O o - noun objective-lens something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive. 1
- noun objective-lens Grammar. Also called objective case. (in English and some other languages) a case specialized for the use of a form as the object of a transitive verb or of a preposition, as him in The boy hit him, or me in He comes to me with his troubles. a word in that case. 1
- noun objective-lens Also called object glass, object lens, objective lens. Optics. (in a telescope, microscope, camera, or other optical system) the lens or combination of lenses that first receives the rays from the object and forms the image in the focal plane of the eyepiece, as in a microscope, or on a plate or screen, as in a camera. 1
- adjective objective-lens being the object or goal of one's efforts or actions. 1
- adjective objective-lens not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice; based on facts; unbiased: an objective opinion. 1
- adjective objective-lens intent upon or dealing with things external to the mind rather than with thoughts or feelings, as a person or a book. 1
- adjective objective-lens being the object of perception or thought; belonging to the object of thought rather than to the thinking subject (opposed to subjective). 1
- adjective objective-lens of or relating to something that can be known, or to something that is an object or a part of an object; existing independent of thought or an observer as part of reality. 1
- adjective objective-lens Grammar. pertaining to the use of a form as the object of a transitive verb or of a preposition. (in English and some other languages) noting the objective case. similar to such a case in meaning. (in case grammar) pertaining to the semantic role of a noun phrase that denotes something undergoing a change of state or bearing a neutral relation to the verb, as the rock in The rock moved or in The child threw the rock. 1
- adjective objective-lens being part of or pertaining to an object to be drawn: an objective plane. 1
- adjective objective-lens Medicine/Medical. (of a symptom) discernible to others as well as the patient. 1