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object lens - the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed

object glass, objective lens, objective

compound microscope - light microscope that has two converging lens systems: the objective and the eyepiece

lens, lens system, lense - a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images

optical telescope - an astronomical telescope designed to collect and record light from cosmic sources

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She hardly observed that a tear descended slowly upon his cheek, a tear so large that it magnified the pores of the skin over which it rolled, like the object lens of a microscope.

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Object Lens, a development tool for CSCW applications, was also demonstrated.

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The size of the clear aperture of the object lens is 32 millimeters in diameter.