Eyepiece
['aɪpiːs] or ['aɪ'pis]
Definition
(noun.) combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments.
Edited by Lizzie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The lens, or combination of lenses, at the eye end of a telescope or other optical instrument, through which the image formed by the mirror or object glass is viewed.
Inputed by Hubert
Examples
- We had a box made thus: whereby two points could be brought together within a dark box provided with an eyepiece. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In many cases men work in diving suits rather than in caissons; these suits are made of rubber except for the head piece, which is of metal provided with transparent eyepieces. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Robert Jordan took his glasses from his shirt pocket and turned the eyepieces until the end of the bridge showed sharp and gray-painted-metal clear. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Typist: Lottie