field lens

1. 1.

   the lens that is farthest from the eye in an optical device with more than one lens

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Questions about field lens

What does field lens mean?

field lens means "the lens that is farthest from the eye in an optical device with more than one lens".

Is field lens a common word?

field 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.