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lens system

n. a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images [syn: lens, lense]

Usage examples of "lens system".

The only ones who will have the advantage of swiftness will be those who go through the lens system.

When the hatch was again closed, he could see that it was shaped with a custom blister to accommodate their awkward lens system.

He stood on his platform just forward of the Fresnel lens system, behind a HUD and console, complete with TV screen, speaker controls, and telephone, that was raised behind a windowed barrier for landing operations.

He allowed himself to drop back and a bit to the side, raised his weapon and aimed it towards the lens system at the stem.

So he missed the twitching of the meatball as he approached the ship's ramp, and by the time he saw movement, the ball had shot off the top of the lens system and he touched down too far down the deck to catch a wire.

It was clearly concerned with optics, for a lens system projected from it toward a screen of white material a dozen yards away.

Not through a telescope on lens system, which does not reverse, not through anything but seeing his own face reflected back up at him, reversed--pulled through infinity.

From here, he could see the Fresnel lens system on the port side, across the flight deck from the island.

The Lens System, known also as the Mirror Field, created a bridge between the 2 time-planes at those points where the planes were at the moment overlapping or had intersected in the past.