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lenticular

/len-tik-yuh-ler/US // lɛnˈtɪk yə lər //UK // (lɛnˈtɪkjʊlə) //

光栅,透镜,透镜式,透镜状

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to a lens.
    • : biconvex; convexo-convex.
    • : resembling the seed of a lentil in form; lentil-shaped.

Examples

  • There they beheld a thick glass lenticular covering, which protected a kind of large eye, from which flashed forth light.

  • The lenticular masses through almost the whole mound showed that the earth had been carried in skins or small baskets.

  • For deep streams the meter A is suspended by a wire with a heavy lenticular weight below (fig. 144).

  • It is a reniform limestone, which occurs distributed in single nodules or rather lenticular cakes, in beds of clay.

  • Instead of rudely breaking, the ice would be compelled to change by insensible degrees from the spherical to the lenticular form.