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intraocular lens
a plastic lens implanted surgically to replace the eye's natural crystalline lens, usually because the natural lens has developed a cataract. -
converging lens
a lens that converts parallel rays of light to convergent rays and produces a real image. -
converter
A converter is a device that changes something into a different form. -
diverging lens
a lens that causes a beam of parallel rays to diverge after refraction, as from a virtual image; a lens that has a negative focal length. -
reflex camera
a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing. -
telephoto lens
a lens constructed so as to produce a relatively large image with a focal length shorter than that required by an ordinary lens producing an image of the same size: used to photograph small or distant objects.