Plano Convex

Word PLANO CONVEX
Character 12
Hyphenation pla no-con vex
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Plano Convex"

What do we mean by plano convex?

Flat on one side and convex on the other. adjective

Plane on one side and convex on the other.

Plane or flat on one side, and convex on the other. See convex, and lens. adjective

Flat or plane on one side and rounded on the other, such that the center is thicker than the edges. adjective

Flat on one side and convex on the other adjective

Flat or plane on one side and rounded on the other, such that the center is thicker than the edges.

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The word "plano-convex" in example sentences

The subject of distortion was next treated of, and the manner in which the idea of a non distorting doublet could be evolved from a single bi-convex lens by division into two plano-convex lenses with a central diaphragm was shown. ❋ Various (N/A)

The oldest type, whether baked or crude, is plano-convex in form, and uninscribed. ❋ Various (N/A)

In fact, a plano-convex crystal lens has been found among the ruins of ❋ Various (N/A)

We wandered along the excavated streets that were bordered by low walls of sun baked plano-convex bricks and marvelled at the state of preservation. ❋ John Cox (N/A)

Brick buildings, with crenellated walls (until the discovery of Tell 'Obeid supposed to date only from the later Sumerian period) of typical plano-convex bricks, baked or crude, usually with thumb-mark down length of convex side (Shahrein), or with two thumb-holes (for carrying the brick when wet?), or vent-holes (' Obeid); at first uninscribed, later with long inscriptions; measuring 10 x 6 x 2-2 1/4 ins. ❋ Various (N/A)

The _fourth glume_ is elliptic-oblong, plano-convex, subobtuse, smooth or shining, though faintly striate, coriaceous with incurved margins; _palea_ is coriaceous, as long as the glume, elliptic, faintly striate. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

Bricks still plano-convex; stamped inscriptions begin. ❋ Various (N/A)

Galileo's telescope consisted of two lenses -- one plano-convex, the other plano-concave, the latter being held next the eye. ❋ Thomas Nathaniel Orchard (N/A)

The burials are hard to distinguish from similar contracted interments of later date, except that the furniture is more abundant in early times and mat graves are unusual in later days Mounds of this age may be known by the occurrence on the surface of scraps of oxydized copper, nails, &c.; shell-fragments; undecorated light drab sherds; and the typical small plano-convex bricks. ❋ Various (N/A)

In this way plano-convex lenses are easily and cheaply made. ❋ Richard Threlfall (N/A)

The fourth glume is coriaceous or crustaceous, plano-convex, bisexual, 5-nerved and paleate; palea is as long as the glume. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The form in most general use is that known as the Abbé (Fig. 47) and consists of a plano-convex lens mounted above a biconvex lens. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The spikelets are plano-convex, orbicular to oblong, obtuse, secund, 2-ranked on the flattened or triquetrous rachis of the spike-like branches of a raceme, one-flowered and falling off entire from the very short or obscure pedicels. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

Bricks made this way were called plano-convex because five faces were flat and the sixth convex; each bore the imprint of a thumb on the convex face, formed as the brick was ejected from the mould. ❋ John Cox (N/A)

This was the suggestion to use two plano-convex lenses, placed at a prescribed distance apart, in lieu of the single double-convex lens generally used. ❋ Unknown (1904)

In still others erosion has stripped off the covering strata and has laid bare the core to its base; and its shape is here seen to be that of a plano-convex lens or a baker's bun, its flat base resting on the undisturbed bedded rocks beneath. ❋ William Harmon Norton (1900)

Berry red, containing two plano-convex seeds enveloped in arils. ❋ Jerome Beers Thomas (1891)

There, two lenses were made, one plano-convex, and the other plano-concave, and these were placed in a tube made of sheet copper. ❋ Elbert Hubbard (1885)

Take an electric lamp, giving a strong beam of light and heat, and with a plano-convex lens gather it into a single beam and direct it upon a thermometer, twenty feet away, that is made of glass and filled with air. ❋ Henry White Warren (1871)

The lenses are usually plano-convex, the convexities being turned towards the object-glass in the negative eye-piece, and towards each other in the positive eye-piece. ❋ Unknown (1862)

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