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What is a convex lens?

What is a convex lens? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (optics) A lens having at least one convex surface, such that light passing through it may be brought to a focus.
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When a convex lens of the right strength is placed in front of the hypermetropic eye, the light rays are refracted to focus on the retina.
Output of laser was focused on the surface of graphite target using a 80 mm focal length convex lens.
A double convex lens with a focal length of 50 cm is fixed in a PVC pipe about 60 cm long.
He was the first to propose adding a convex lens to the camera obscura.
In the construction of reflecting telescopes, concave mirrors, or specula, are combined with a double convex lens.
We saw in the last section that a real image is formed by light moving through a convex lens.

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