What is "convex lens"

Usage examples of "convex lens".

I told you how I worked in the factory and the sun used to beat in through the glass roof and there was this one bit like a convex lens and how it used to burn me at midday.

Dwer peered through the window, a rippled convex lens with a broken stem in the middle.

On the forepart of the crown gleamed a small round convex lens crafted of dark crystal.

Irma simply twitched but was too refined to look round, and it was left to the Doctor to make contact with Fuchsia by means of an exquisitely timed wink with his left eye behind its convex lens, like an oyster shutting and opening itself beneath a pool of water.

The man wore a mask of perfectly smooth, rounded mirror, a convex lens that sent Benjamins distorted face back at him.

The man wore a mask of perfectly smooth, rounded mirror, a convex lens that sent Benjamin’.

One of the seemingly empty seats held a very thin circular convex lens.

Sea spray drenched him, spotting the screen with droplets of salt water, each acting like a small convex lens, magnifying the pixel lattice that shone beneath them.

He balanced the watch in his hand, gazed hard at the dial, opened the back, and examined the works, first with his naked eyes and then with a powerful convex lens.

Getting from there to a polished convex lens was still a large step.

Then with an expression of interest he laid down his cigarette, and carrying the cane to the window, he looked over it again with a convex lens.

When the yellow one made its way around back, the smaller blue one circled forward until their edges overlapped, forming a single convex lens of rare green.

The curved sides would refract light from every direction into the craft's cameras, a huge convex lens that warped the view, but with simple, calculable geometries.

Set in a brass frame and handle, it had a convex lens six inches across.