OPTICAL CONDENSER

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Lens used to concentrate light on an object

Synonyms:

condenser; optical condenser

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("optical condenser" is a kind of...):

lens; lens system; lense (a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "optical condenser"):

Abbe condenser (a condenser having 2 or 3 lenses with wide aperture for use in microscopes)

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