diverging lens

C15645
concept

A diverging lens is a lens that spreads parallel incoming light rays outward so they appear to originate from a single focal point on the same side of the lens as the light source.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
diverging lens canonical 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: diverging lens
Generated description
A diverging lens is a lens that spreads parallel incoming light rays outward so they appear to originate from a single focal point on the same side of the lens as the light source.

Instances (1)

Instance Via concept surface
Barlow lenses
surface form: Barlow lens