FORM: The cross-section is usually biconvexbut may be plano-convex or flattened.
The power of our beacon was increased a hundredfold, like a lamp shining through the biconvex lenses of a world-class lighthouse.
I then examined the fittings of this mechanism, whose power was increased a hundredfold by biconvex lenses that were designed like those in a lighthouse and kept its rays productively focused.
My helmsman is stationed behind the windows of a pilothouse, which protrudes from the topside of the Nautilus's hull and is fitted with biconvex glass.
Set in the cabin's walls were four deadlights, windows of biconvex glass that enabled the man at the helm to see in every direction.
L) with its ligament separates the aqueous from the vitreous chamber of the eye; it is a biconvex lens the posterior surface of which is more curved than the anterior.
The lens is biconvexin diurnal mammals, but in nocturnal and aquatic it is spherical.
C1P1 and C2P2 be two parallel radii of a biconvex lens.
The latticed shell is a simple biconvex lens, and encloses a smaller central capsule of the same form, separated from it by the jelly-veil.
Six larger spines in the hydrotomical plane, prominent on the margin of the circular or elliptical biconvex lens.
The genus Pylodiscus differs from Hexapyle in the development of two convex plates of lattice-work, which close the six open gates and transform the disk into a biconvex fenestrated lens.
Central capsule lenticular or { Shell a biconvex lens or a discoidal.
The shell of some species is nearly spherical (formerly separated by me as Theosphaera), whilst in others it is a flattened biconvex lens.
The holochroal eyes are of two kinds, one with plano-convex and one with biconvex lenses.
The latter would seem to be mechanically the more perfect of the two, and it is worthy of note that the trilobites possessing the biconvex lenses have, in general, much smaller eyes than those with the other type.
Each consists of a globular capsule covered by a layer of pigment, except on the outer side, where there is a transparent biconvex lens.
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