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field lens
noun
the lens in an eyepiece that is farthest from the eye and that deviates rays toward the center of the eye lens.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of field lens1
Example Sentences
I could replace my dead phone, buy a tablet, and finally get that new astronomical refractor telescope, the one with the large field lens and high magnification, all at the top of my “What I Want More Than Anything Else” list—after saving Fig, of course.
With such an eyepiece the image viewed is beyond the farther or field lens instead of between the two lenses, and as this fact renders it easier to adjust wires or lines for measuring purposes in the focus of the eyepiece, the Ramsden construction is used when a micrometer is to be employed.
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