diverging lens

1. 1.

   a lens such that a parallel beam of light passing through it is caused to diverge or spread out

   Synonymsconcave lens

   Broaderlens

Questions about diverging lens

What does diverging lens mean?

diverging lens means "a lens such that a parallel beam of light passing through it is caused to diverge or spread out".

What is another word for diverging lens?

Close synonyms include concave lens. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is diverging lens a common word?

diverging lens is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.