converging light
1Converging — Con*ver ging, a. Tending to one point; approaching each other; convergent; as, converging lines. Whewell. [1913 Webster] {Converging rays}(Opt.), rays of light, which, proceeding from different points of an object, tend toward a single point.… …
2Converging rays — Converging Con*ver ging, a. Tending to one point; approaching each other; convergent; as, converging lines. Whewell. [1913 Webster] {Converging rays}(Opt.), rays of light, which, proceeding from different points of an object, tend toward a single …
3Converging series — Converging Con*ver ging, a. Tending to one point; approaching each other; convergent; as, converging lines. Whewell. [1913 Webster] {Converging rays}(Opt.), rays of light, which, proceeding from different points of an object, tend toward a single …
4light — light1 lightful, adj. lightfully, adv. /luyt/, n., adj., lighter, lightest, v., lighted or lit, lighting. n. 1. something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light. 2. Physics …
5Light rail in North America — The term light rail was coined in 1972 by the U.S. Urban Mass Transit Association (UMTA) to describe new streetcar transformations which were taking place in Europe and the United States. The Germans used the term stadtbahn to describe the… …
6Light rail in the United States — The use of light rail in the United States is low by European standards. According to the American Public Transportation Authority, of the 20 odd light rail systems in the United States only five (Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and …
7converging lens — lens which merges light rays together, lens which concentrates light …
8converging lens — noun lens such that a beam of light passing through it is brought to a point or focus • Syn: ↑convex lens • Hypernyms: ↑lens, ↑lense, ↑lens system • Hyponyms: ↑sunglass * * * noun …
9converging lens — noun Date: 1860 a lens that causes parallel rays (as of light) to come to a focus …
10converging lens — Optics. a lens that converts parallel rays of light to convergent rays and produces a real image. Also called positive lens. Cf. diverging lens. See diag. under lens. * * * …
