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eyepiece

/ahy-pees/US // ˈaɪˌpis //UK // (ˈaɪˌpiːs) //

目镜,眼镜,目测器,目测

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the lens or combination of lenses in an optical instrument through which the eye views the image formed by the objective lens or lenses; ocular.

Examples

  • When astronomers stopped looking through the eyepiece and started focusing on photographic plates instead, the planets became even more obscure.

  • However, at the long wavelengths of radio light, the dishes of radio telescopes are shiny too, reflecting radio waves from the sky up to a receiver, just as visible light reflects off a telescope’s mirror and into an eyepiece.

  • Before beginning an exposure the focus is adjusted by means of a high-power positive eyepiece.

  • Looking through the eyepiece, the young inventor stood as though transfixed.

  • Beware of the popular error that an object held close in front of a telescope can be seen by an observer at the eyepiece.

  • Insert the eyepiece micrometer inside the ocular and adjust the stage micrometer on the stage of the microscope.

  • This is an ordinary eyepiece fitted with an adjustable square diaphragm operated by a lever projecting from the side of the mount.