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Eyepiece   /ˈaɪpˌis/   Listen
Eyepiece

noun
1.
Combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments.  Synonym: ocular.






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"Eyepiece" Quotes from Famous Books



... 1 on Earth's moon, Rog Everett, his eye at the eyepiece of the spotter scope, said triumphantly, "Thar she blew, Willie. And now, as soon as the films are developed, we'll know the score on that old planet Mars." He straightened up—there'd be no more to see now—and he and Willie Sanger shook hands solemnly. ...
— Earthmen Bearing Gifts • Fredric Brown

... diminished. Its white field is thus darkened by measured degrees, and becomes black when all light is excluded by the closed valve. While this darkening process goes on in one-half of the instrument, the white field in the other half does not change, and, looking into the eyepiece, the observer sees each step contrasted with the original white. One-half is thus said to be variable because of its valve, and the other side is said to be fixed. A dial connected with the valve has a hand moving over it to show how much ...
— A Color Notation - A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, - Value and Chroma • Albert H. Munsell

... was hung with its twenty-foot cylinder above the platform. Its intensification tubes were glowing in a dim phosphorescent row on a nearby bracket. A man sat in a chair on the platform at the microscope's eyepiece. ...
— Astounding Stories, March, 1931 • Various

... bottle of water, white paper and handkerchief, portable microscope with a good Tolles one inch eyepiece, and ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 • Various

... the grizzled beard put his face into the fur around the eyepiece of the telescopic-'visor and twisted a dial. "You have good eyes, Miss Quinton," he complimented. "Only four personal armors; Ahmed, ask him where ...
— Uller Uprising • Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr

... wheeled a small machine from the wall and placed Bolden's hand in a narrow trough that held it steady. The eyepiece slid into the microscreen and, starting at the finger tips, Kessler examined the arm, traveling slowly upward. At last he stopped. "Is ...
— Bolden's Pets • F. L. Wallace

... to the wall he crawled with the speed and silence of a Houssa scout, and, once in shelter of the stones, was not long in finding a crevice roughly funnel-shaped, which gave him, with small eyepiece, a wide outlook. ...
— Ambrotox and Limping Dick • Oliver Fleming



Words linked to "Eyepiece" :   sights, opera glasses, ocular, reticule, field glasses, lens system, lense, graticule, optical telescope, binoculars, light microscope, reticle, lens



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