Lenticular Definition

lĕn-tĭkyə-lər
adjective
Shaped like a lentil or biconvex lens.
Webster's New World
Of a lens.
Webster's New World
Of the lens of the eye.
Webster's New World
Designating or of a projection screen made up of a series of small cylindrical lenses set on the surface: the screen is very bright over a wide angle of viewing.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
noun
A lenticular image.
Wiktionary
A lenticular galaxy.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Lenticular

Noun

Singular:
lenticular
Plural:
lenticulars

Origin of Lenticular

  • Latin lenticulāris lentil-shaped from lenticula lentil lentil

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin lenticulāris (“lentil-shaped"), from lÄ“ns (“a lentil").

    From Wiktionary

Lenticular Sentence Examples

  • In most cases this cornea is divided into lenticular facets corresponding to the underlying ommatidia.

  • To Brewster is due the merit of suggesting the use of lenses for the purpose of uniting the dissimilar pictures; and accordingly the lenticular stereoscope may fairly be said to be his invention.

  • More often it consists of a thick felting of silk, either spun in one continuous piece into a globular form, as in the Aviculariidae, or composed of two plate-like pieces, an upper and a lower, united at the edges and lenticular in shape, as in some of the Lycosidae.

  • As a result of this change of form the gastric cavity or coelenteron becomes of compressed lenticular form, and the endoderm lining it can be distinguished as an upper or exumbral layer and a lower or subumbral layer.

  • They are generally of lenticular form, and usually occur in or near the contact of eruptive rocks with schists or slates; the presence of the igneous rock being probably connected genetically with their origin.

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