len·tic·u·lar

(lĕn-tĭk′yə-lər)

adj.

1. Shaped like a biconvex lens.

2. Of or relating to a lens.

[Latin lenticulāris, lentil-shaped, from lenticula, lentil; see lentil.]

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lenticular

(lɛnˈtɪkjʊlə) or

lentiform

adj

1. (General Physics) Also: lentoid shaped like a biconvex lens

2. (General Physics) of or concerned with a lens or lenses

3. (Botany) shaped like a lentil seed

4. (Celestial Objects) of or relating to a galaxy with a large central bulge, small disc, but no spiral arms, intermediate in shape between spiral and elliptical galaxies

[C17: from Latin lenticulāris like a lentil]

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len•tic•u•lar

(lɛnˈtɪk yə lər)

adj.

1. of or pertaining to a lens.

2. biconvex; convexo-convex.

[1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin lenticulāris lentillike =lenticul(a) (see lenticel) + -āris -ar¹]

len•tic′u•lar•ly, adv.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.

lenticular - convex on both sides; shaped like a lentil

biconvex, convexo-convex, lentiform

bulging, convex - curving or bulging outward

Translations

lenticolare

len·tic·u·lar

a. lenticular, rel. a un lente.

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Light and view were given by means of four thick lenticular glass scuttles, two pierced in the circular wall itself, the third in the bottom, the fourth in the top.

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Other plates, closely fitted, covered the lenticular glasses, and the travelers, hermetically enclosed in their metal prison, were plunged in profound darkness.

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Fore and aft rose two cages of medium height with inclined sides, and partly closed by thick lenticular glasses; one destined for the steersman who directed the Nautilus, the other containing a brilliant lantern to give light on the road.

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It was wholly in the lower ice, but close against the upper, and was flattish, or perhaps slightly lenticular, with a rounded edge, a quarter of an inch deep by four inches in diameter; and I was surprised to find that directly under the bubble the ice was melted with great regularity in the form of a saucer reversed, to the height of five eighths of an inch in the middle, leaving a thin partition there between the water and the bubble, hardly an eighth of an inch thick; and in many places the small bubbles in this partition had burst out downward, and probably there was no ice at all under the largest bubbles, which were a foot in diameter.

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