object glass

Questions about object glass

What is another word for object glass?

It depends which object glass you mean. In the sense “the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed”, the synonyms are objective, objective lens, object lens. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of object glass?

WordNet records no antonym for object glass. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for object glass come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of object glass

• Full entry for object glassAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for object glassWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.