planoconvex
adjEtymology From plano- + convex.
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Engineering, Natural sciences, Optics, Physical sciences, Physics Of a lens Having one side plane and the other convex.
- I place my Microscope, and then so place either a round Globe of Water, or a very deep clear plano convex Glass (whose convex side is turn'd towards the Window) that there is a great quantity of Rayes collected and thrown upon the Object […].1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:
- Synonyms
- convexoplane
- Related terms
- planoconcave