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crown lens
noun
a lens made of crown glass, usually used as the converging lens component of an achromatic lens.
crown lens
noun
a lens made of optical crown, esp the optical-crown part of a compound achromatic lens
Word History and Origins
Origin of crown lens1
Example Sentences
But girl, look how good you look in that flower crown lens!
Hall and Dollond did was to make the outer or crown lens of the objective as before, and place behind it a plano-concave lens of dense flint glass.
It will be seen that the flint glass component by itself is a concave lens and therefore neutralises in part, or in whole, the convex crown lens.
Fitted with a reversible crown lens for photography.
This had the effect of neutralizing the chromatic effect, or color aberration, while at the same time only part of the refractive effect of the crown lens was destroyed.
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