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Object glass   /ˈɑbdʒɛkt glæs/   Listen
Object glass

noun
1.
The lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed.  Synonyms: object lens, objective, objective lens.






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"Object glass" Quotes from Famous Books



... even in perfect states of consciousness on the part of those whose brains have been laid bare, there can be no certainty that the molecular action, if any, is referable to one set of movements more than another. And even in the case of animalcules, as seen in the object glass of the microscope, there is no absolute certainty that their quick, darting or jerking movements are due to any life-manifestation, as heretofore assumed. Some quite as well defined forms are entirely motionless, and if all were so, it would ...
— Life: Its True Genesis • R. W. Wright

... scattering of the red and of the blue rays; and proceeding so far as to demonstrate things which were not supposed even to exist, he examines the inequalities which arise from the shape or figure of the glass, and that which arises from the refrangibility. He finds that the object glass of the telescope being convex on one side and flat on the other, in case the flat side be turned towards the object, the error which arises from the construction and position of the glass is above five thousand times less than the error which arises from the refrangibility; ...
— Letters on England • Voltaire



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