objective lens

What does objective lens mean?

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

What is another word for objective lens?

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

objective 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.

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