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OPTICAL CONDENSER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lens used to concentrate light on an object
Synonyms:
condenser; optical condenser
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("optical condenser" is a kind of...):
lens; lens system; lense (a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "optical condenser"):
Abbe condenser (a condenser having 2 or 3 lenses with wide aperture for use in microscopes)