object glass

What does object glass mean?

object glass means "the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed".

What is another word for object glass?

Close synonyms include objective, objective lens, object 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 object glass a common word?

object glass 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for object glass come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.