lenticularadj.n.

Brit.

/lɛnˈtɪkjᵿlə/, U.S.

/lɛnˈtɪkjələr/

Etymology: < late Latin lenticulāris, < lenticula , diminutive of lent- , lens lentil: see lens n. Compare French lenticulaire.

A. adj.

1. Having the form of a lens or of a lentil; resembling a lens or lentil in form; double convex.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > convex > double convex

lenticular1658

lentiform1706

lentular1761

lentile1763

lentil-shaped1796

lenticular-shaped1835

lentoid1879

lensoid1930

1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) Ep. Ded. Lenticular optick Glasses of crystal.

1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 172 The Crystalline Humour, which is of a lenticular Figure.

1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica II. 1049 [Peziza crucibuliformis] Crucible seeding Peziza. Anglis... The lenticular seed-vessels white.

1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy I. 521 They have all a lenticular form very much flattened.

1830 R. Knox tr. P. A. Béclard Elements Gen. Anat. 46 Hewson..found the red particles of the human blood to be lenticular.

1845 J. Lindley School Bot. (1858) viii. 151 It [duckweed] consists of lenticular floating fronds.

1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 58 Lenticular grains (e.g. in the endosperm of wheat) have a lenticular nucleus.

1877 G. F. Chambers Handbk. Descr. Astron. (ed. 3) i. viii. 92 The Zodiacal Light is a peculiar nebulous light of a conical or lenticular form.

a. Of or pertaining to a lens; employing a lens or lenses.

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > lens > [adjective]

lensed1859

lenticular1874

1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. v. 104 Its consumption of oil and stores..is not more than that of the lenticular light.

1903 Sci. Amer. 7 Feb. 98/2 The lenses revolve at a given speed..proportioned to the diameter of the illuminant and the lenticular apparatus.

1961 Listener 26 Oct. 670/1 The first lenticular light-house.

b. Of or pertaining to the (crystalline) lens of the eye.

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the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > parts of sight organ > [adjective] > humours

lenticular1822

phakic1918

intralenticular1944

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 220 Lenticular Cataract. The opacity existing in the lens itself and confined to it.

1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 493 Tension of the left eye, in which there was commencing lenticular opacity.

3. Photography.

a. Embossed with minute lenses, as lenticular film, a film having the non-emulsion surface formed into minute lenses (usually cylindrical lenses, giving a corrugated pattern), so that two or more images (as of different primary colours to make up a colour photograph) can be interspersed on the same area of film.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > plates and films > [adjective] > types of film

thirty-five millimetre1666

soft?1863

pushable1871

unexposed1892

lenticulated1925

prescreened1929

lenticular1934

pan1940

subminiature1977

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > plates and films > [noun] > film > types of film

film negative1871

roll1889

roll film1895

reversal film1929

colour film1930

lenticular film1934

pan1940

test strip1940

flat film1950

integral tripack1953

lith1955

overhead transparency1966

1934 Photogr. Jrnl. 74 206/1 The list of patents relating to the duplicating of lenticular films grows.

1950 A. W. Judge Stereoscopic Photogr. (ed. 3) xvii. 297 A more recent method of making Lenticular stereograms..employs a lenticular screen, made up of contiguous cylindrical-type lenses, of very small width, placed in front of the sensitive emulsion.

1962 W. G. Hyzer Engin. & Sci. High-speed Photogr. i. 42 A lenticular plate, comprised of an array of spherical lenslets, is employed to produce a corresponding array of spots on the photo~sensitive film. A primary lens having an aperture of f/6·3 is used to project the image of the event onto the front surface of the lenticular plate, whereupon each individual lenslet converges the image rays intercepted by its surface onto a tiny spot at the focal plane. Sequential images may be obtained by producing relative motion between the lenticular plate and the photographic emulsion.

1966 R. J. Ross Television Film Engin. xi. 445 A method of recording on 35 mm lenticular film was at one time employed by the National Broadcasting Company.

1967 Electronics 6 Mar. 79/1 (advt.) The tube's light output is 30,000 foot lamberts, which results in a light level of 15-foot lamberts on a 3′ × 4′ lenticular screen.

b. Applied to a method of colour photography using a film with cylindrical lenticulations and filters with bands of the primary colours parallel to the lenticulations during exposure and projection.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > [adjective] > colour

heliochromic1855

photochromatic1856

isochromatic1884

photo-trichromatic1896

colour1898

Lippmann1902

panchromatic1903

Lumière1907

lenticular1936

1936 R. M. Fanstone Colour Photogr. (ed. 2) xvii. 157 (heading) Lenticular colour photography.

1942 C. B. Neblette Photogr. (ed. 4) xxxii. 797 The Lenticular process is essentially a screen method in which the screen is formed optically on the emulsion during exposure.

1964 E. S. Bomback Man. Colour Photogr. iii. 56 The first commercial film based on the lenticular process was marketed by Kodak in 1928 as 16 mm. cine film..called Kodacolor.

†B. n. Obsolete.

a. A lenticular glass or lens.

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > lens > [noun]

glass1545

optic1599

optic glass1607

perspicil1611

lenticular1658

spectacle-glass1682

lens1693

speculum1756

optical1944

lenslet1956

1658 tr. G. della Porta Nat. Magick xvii. 368 A Convex Lenticular kindleth fire most violently.

b. = A lenticular knife (see Compounds 1).

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > rasps or scrapers

raspatory?a1425

rougine?a1425

scalping1552

scalper1656

desquamatory1668

lenticular instrument1672

scalprum1688

xyster1688

radula1706

lenticular1739

lenticular knife1846

1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. xx. 73 We..contented ourselves with removing some Asperities at the Circumference of the Fracture with the Lenticular.

1802 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 8 484 The Lenticular is an instrument, apparently better adapted to its intent, than experience can allow to be the case.

Compounds

C1. Special collocations.

lenticular bed n. Geology ‘a bed which thins away in all directions’ (Green Phys. Geol. 1877).

ΚΠ

1849 R. I. Murchison Siluria viii. 176 Including some lenticular beds of conglomerates.

lenticular bone n. = the orbicular bone ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1888).

Categories »

† lenticular fever n. Obsolete a fever attended with an eruption of small red pimples (Worc. 1860 citing Dunglison).

lenticular ganglion n. = ciliary ganglion at ciliary adj. 1.

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the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > parts of nerves > [noun] > ganglion

ganglion1698

lenticular ganglion1793

nerve-knot1832

Casserian (or Gasserian) ganglion1842

station1855

nerve ganglion1870

1793 Young in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 83 174 The lenticular ganglion.

1840 G. V. Ellis Demonstr. Anat. 94 The ophthalmic or lenticular ganglion, a small roundish-shaped body, is redder in colour in one subject than in another.

lenticular gland n. (a) = lenticel n. 1; (b) one of the lentiform mucous follicles at the base of the tongue.

ΚΠ

1835 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (1839) 67 Lenticular glands are brown oval spots found upon the bark of many plants.

lenticular instrument n. a scraper used in osteotomy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > rasps or scrapers

raspatory?a1425

rougine?a1425

scalping1552

scalper1656

desquamatory1668

lenticular instrument1672

scalprum1688

xyster1688

radula1706

lenticular1739

lenticular knife1846

1672 R. Wiseman Treat. Wounds i. ix. 95 This is to be done by the Lenticular instrument made for that purpose.

lenticular knife n. = lenticular instrument n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > rasps or scrapers

raspatory?a1425

rougine?a1425

scalping1552

scalper1656

desquamatory1668

lenticular instrument1672

scalprum1688

xyster1688

radula1706

lenticular1739

lenticular knife1846

1846 F. Brittan tr. J. F. Malgaigne Man. Operative Surg. 167 The disc of bone having been removed, and the edges levelled with a lenticular knife.

lenticular loop n. a set of fibres that pass outward beneath the optic thalamus through the internal capsule.

lenticular nucleus n. the lower of the two grey nuclei of the corpus striatum.

ΚΠ

1899 Allbutt's Sys. Med. VI. 501 That degeneration of the central link of the bulbar nuclei associated with symmetrical lesions of the cortex..and in particular of the outer segment of the lenticular nucleus.

lenticular ore n. (see quot. 1863).

ΚΠ

1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. 234 Beds of red argillaceous iron-ore, called lenticular ore, from the small flattened grains which compose it.

lenticular process n. a process on the incus of a mammal.

ΚΠ

1889 Cent. Dict. IV. (rev. ed.) Lenticular process.

lenticular stereoscope n. (see quot. 1869).

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments for observing > [noun] > stereoscope

stereoscope1838

phantascope1849

lenticular stereoscope1852

stereomonoscope1858

telestereoscope1858

stereophantasmascope1865

stereo1876

stereophantascope1890

tropostereoscope1900

kalloscope1901

rotoscope1907

1852 London, Edinb. & Dublin Philos. Mag. 3 17 (heading) The lenticular stereoscope.

1869 J. Tyndall Notes 9 Lect. on Light 31 The instrument most used by the public is the Lenticular Stereoscope of Sir David Brewster. In it the two projections are combined by means of two half lenses with their edges turned inwards.

C2. Combinations, as lenticular-shaped.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > convex > double convex

lenticular1658

lentiform1706

lentular1761

lentile1763

lentil-shaped1796

lenticular-shaped1835

lentoid1879

lensoid1930

1835 E. A. Poe Hans Pfaall in Wks. (1864) I. 17 The lenticular-shaped phenomenon..called the zodiacal light.

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 63/2 Filled up with lenticular shaped blocks.

1881 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (ed. 4) 85 These pendulums have generally lenticular shaped bobs.

Draft additions 1997

lenticular cloud n. Meteorology a lens- or lentil-shaped cloud with sharp, sometimes iridescent outlines, which usually occurs in association with lee waves.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [noun] > a cloud > other specific shapes

Noah's Ark?1789

lenticular cloud1894

1894 W. C. Ley Cloudland iv. 49 When a patch of cloud has an approximately circular periphery, and a somewhat greater vertical thickness at or near its centre than at its edge, towards which it shelves off, being, in fact, a flat spheroid, its largest diameter lying parallel to the earth's surface, we call the cloud Lenticular.]

1894 W. C. Ley Cloudland iv. 50 Rather rarely, I have seen very perfect Lenticular clouds during a frosty afternoon in winter lying above the summits of low hills.

1926 W. J. Humphreys Fogs & Clouds iii. 58 The lenticular cloud..often is only the cloud cap to a stationary..air billow produced as a rule by the flow of the wind over an uneven surface.

1978 A. Welch Bk. Airsports vii. 122/2 (caption) Wave systems are often characterized by smooth-edged lenticular clouds which remain almost stationary in the sky.

1985 National Geographic May 673/1 Wave, or lenticular, clouds.., partly created by strong winds blowing perpendicular to a mountain range.

Draft additions 1997

lenticular galaxy n. Astronomy a galaxy having the flattened shape and dense centre characteristic of spiral galaxies, but without discernable spiral arms.

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the world > the universe > constellation > galaxy > [noun] > lenticular galaxy

lenticular galaxy1953

1953 E. E. Smith Second Stage Lensmen xvii. 231 But the Dauntless was not within any lenticular galaxy—nowhere was there any sign of a Milky Way!

1977 J. Narlikar Struct. Universe iii. 68 Apart from this there are lenticular galaxies S0, which resemble the spirals in many respects but which are very much dominated by the bulge.

1992 M. J. West in S. P. Maran Astron. & Astrophysics Encycl. 95/2 The galaxy populations of rich regular clusters tend to be composed primarily of elliptical and S0 (lenticular) galaxies, with only a small fraction of spirals.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	lenticular
释义	lenticularadj.n. Brit. /lɛnˈtɪkjᵿlə/, U.S. /lɛnˈtɪkjələr/ Etymology: < late Latin lenticulāris, < lenticula , diminutive of lent- , lens lentil: see lens n. Compare French lenticulaire. A. adj. 1. Having the form of a lens or of a lentil; resembling a lens or lentil in form; double convex. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > convex > double convex lenticular1658 lentiform1706 lentular1761 lentile1763 lentil-shaped1796 lenticular-shaped1835 lentoid1879 lensoid1930 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) Ep. Ded. Lenticular optick Glasses of crystal. 1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 172 The Crystalline Humour, which is of a lenticular Figure. 1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica II. 1049 [Peziza crucibuliformis] Crucible seeding Peziza. Anglis... The lenticular seed-vessels white. 1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy I. 521 They have all a lenticular form very much flattened. 1830 R. Knox tr. P. A. Béclard Elements Gen. Anat. 46 Hewson..found the red particles of the human blood to be lenticular. 1845 J. Lindley School Bot. (1858) viii. 151 It [duckweed] consists of lenticular floating fronds. 1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 58 Lenticular grains (e.g. in the endosperm of wheat) have a lenticular nucleus. 1877 G. F. Chambers Handbk. Descr. Astron. (ed. 3) i. viii. 92 The Zodiacal Light is a peculiar nebulous light of a conical or lenticular form. 2. a. Of or pertaining to a lens; employing a lens or lenses. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > lens > [adjective] lensed1859 lenticular1874 1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. v. 104 Its consumption of oil and stores..is not more than that of the lenticular light. 1903 Sci. Amer. 7 Feb. 98/2 The lenses revolve at a given speed..proportioned to the diameter of the illuminant and the lenticular apparatus. 1961 Listener 26 Oct. 670/1 The first lenticular light-house. b. Of or pertaining to the (crystalline) lens of the eye. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > parts of sight organ > [adjective] > humours lenticular1822 phakic1918 intralenticular1944 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 220 Lenticular Cataract. The opacity existing in the lens itself and confined to it. 1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 493 Tension of the left eye, in which there was commencing lenticular opacity. 3. Photography. a. Embossed with minute lenses, as lenticular film, a film having the non-emulsion surface formed into minute lenses (usually cylindrical lenses, giving a corrugated pattern), so that two or more images (as of different primary colours to make up a colour photograph) can be interspersed on the same area of film. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > plates and films > [adjective] > types of film thirty-five millimetre1666 soft?1863 pushable1871 unexposed1892 lenticulated1925 prescreened1929 lenticular1934 pan1940 subminiature1977 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > plates and films > [noun] > film > types of film film negative1871 roll1889 roll film1895 reversal film1929 colour film1930 lenticular film1934 pan1940 test strip1940 flat film1950 integral tripack1953 lith1955 overhead transparency1966 1934 Photogr. Jrnl. 74 206/1 The list of patents relating to the duplicating of lenticular films grows. 1950 A. W. Judge Stereoscopic Photogr. (ed. 3) xvii. 297 A more recent method of making Lenticular stereograms..employs a lenticular screen, made up of contiguous cylindrical-type lenses, of very small width, placed in front of the sensitive emulsion. 1962 W. G. Hyzer Engin. & Sci. High-speed Photogr. i. 42 A lenticular plate, comprised of an array of spherical lenslets, is employed to produce a corresponding array of spots on the photo~sensitive film. A primary lens having an aperture of f/6·3 is used to project the image of the event onto the front surface of the lenticular plate, whereupon each individual lenslet converges the image rays intercepted by its surface onto a tiny spot at the focal plane. Sequential images may be obtained by producing relative motion between the lenticular plate and the photographic emulsion. 1966 R. J. Ross Television Film Engin. xi. 445 A method of recording on 35 mm lenticular film was at one time employed by the National Broadcasting Company. 1967 Electronics 6 Mar. 79/1 (advt.) The tube's light output is 30,000 foot lamberts, which results in a light level of 15-foot lamberts on a 3′ × 4′ lenticular screen. b. Applied to a method of colour photography using a film with cylindrical lenticulations and filters with bands of the primary colours parallel to the lenticulations during exposure and projection. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > [adjective] > colour heliochromic1855 photochromatic1856 isochromatic1884 photo-trichromatic1896 colour1898 Lippmann1902 panchromatic1903 Lumière1907 lenticular1936 1936 R. M. Fanstone Colour Photogr. (ed. 2) xvii. 157 (heading) Lenticular colour photography. 1942 C. B. Neblette Photogr. (ed. 4) xxxii. 797 The Lenticular process is essentially a screen method in which the screen is formed optically on the emulsion during exposure. 1964 E. S. Bomback Man. Colour Photogr. iii. 56 The first commercial film based on the lenticular process was marketed by Kodak in 1928 as 16 mm. cine film..called Kodacolor. †B. n. Obsolete. a. A lenticular glass or lens. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > lens > [noun] glass1545 optic1599 optic glass1607 perspicil1611 lenticular1658 spectacle-glass1682 lens1693 speculum1756 optical1944 lenslet1956 1658 tr. G. della Porta Nat. Magick xvii. 368 A Convex Lenticular kindleth fire most violently. b. = A lenticular knife (see Compounds 1). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > rasps or scrapers raspatory?a1425 rougine?a1425 scalping1552 scalper1656 desquamatory1668 lenticular instrument1672 scalprum1688 xyster1688 radula1706 lenticular1739 lenticular knife1846 1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. xx. 73 We..contented ourselves with removing some Asperities at the Circumference of the Fracture with the Lenticular. 1802 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 8 484 The Lenticular is an instrument, apparently better adapted to its intent, than experience can allow to be the case. Compounds C1. Special collocations. lenticular bed n. Geology ‘a bed which thins away in all directions’ (Green Phys. Geol. 1877). ΚΠ 1849 R. I. Murchison Siluria viii. 176 Including some lenticular beds of conglomerates. lenticular bone n. = the orbicular bone ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1888). Categories » † lenticular fever n. Obsolete a fever attended with an eruption of small red pimples (Worc. 1860 citing Dunglison). lenticular ganglion n. = ciliary ganglion at ciliary adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > parts of nerves > [noun] > ganglion ganglion1698 lenticular ganglion1793 nerve-knot1832 Casserian (or Gasserian) ganglion1842 station1855 nerve ganglion1870 1793 Young in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 83 174 The lenticular ganglion. 1840 G. V. Ellis Demonstr. Anat. 94 The ophthalmic or lenticular ganglion, a small roundish-shaped body, is redder in colour in one subject than in another. lenticular gland n. (a) = lenticel n. 1; (b) one of the lentiform mucous follicles at the base of the tongue. ΚΠ 1835 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (1839) 67 Lenticular glands are brown oval spots found upon the bark of many plants. lenticular instrument n. a scraper used in osteotomy. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > rasps or scrapers raspatory?a1425 rougine?a1425 scalping1552 scalper1656 desquamatory1668 lenticular instrument1672 scalprum1688 xyster1688 radula1706 lenticular1739 lenticular knife1846 1672 R. Wiseman Treat. Wounds i. ix. 95 This is to be done by the Lenticular instrument made for that purpose. lenticular knife n. = lenticular instrument n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > rasps or scrapers raspatory?a1425 rougine?a1425 scalping1552 scalper1656 desquamatory1668 lenticular instrument1672 scalprum1688 xyster1688 radula1706 lenticular1739 lenticular knife1846 1846 F. Brittan tr. J. F. Malgaigne Man. Operative Surg. 167 The disc of bone having been removed, and the edges levelled with a lenticular knife. lenticular loop n. a set of fibres that pass outward beneath the optic thalamus through the internal capsule. lenticular nucleus n. the lower of the two grey nuclei of the corpus striatum. ΚΠ 1899 Allbutt's Sys. Med. VI. 501 That degeneration of the central link of the bulbar nuclei associated with symmetrical lesions of the cortex..and in particular of the outer segment of the lenticular nucleus. lenticular ore n. (see quot. 1863). ΚΠ 1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. 234 Beds of red argillaceous iron-ore, called lenticular ore, from the small flattened grains which compose it. lenticular process n. a process on the incus of a mammal. ΚΠ 1889 Cent. Dict. IV. (rev. ed.) Lenticular process. lenticular stereoscope n. (see quot. 1869). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments for observing > [noun] > stereoscope stereoscope1838 phantascope1849 lenticular stereoscope1852 stereomonoscope1858 telestereoscope1858 stereophantasmascope1865 stereo1876 stereophantascope1890 tropostereoscope1900 kalloscope1901 rotoscope1907 1852 London, Edinb. & Dublin Philos. Mag. 3 17 (heading) The lenticular stereoscope. 1869 J. Tyndall Notes 9 Lect. on Light 31 The instrument most used by the public is the Lenticular Stereoscope of Sir David Brewster. In it the two projections are combined by means of two half lenses with their edges turned inwards. C2. Combinations, as lenticular-shaped. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > convex > double convex lenticular1658 lentiform1706 lentular1761 lentile1763 lentil-shaped1796 lenticular-shaped1835 lentoid1879 lensoid1930 1835 E. A. Poe Hans Pfaall in Wks. (1864) I. 17 The lenticular-shaped phenomenon..called the zodiacal light. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 63/2 Filled up with lenticular shaped blocks. 1881 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (ed. 4) 85 These pendulums have generally lenticular shaped bobs. Draft additions 1997 lenticular cloud n. Meteorology a lens- or lentil-shaped cloud with sharp, sometimes iridescent outlines, which usually occurs in association with lee waves. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [noun] > a cloud > other specific shapes Noah's Ark?1789 lenticular cloud1894 1894 W. C. Ley Cloudland iv. 49 When a patch of cloud has an approximately circular periphery, and a somewhat greater vertical thickness at or near its centre than at its edge, towards which it shelves off, being, in fact, a flat spheroid, its largest diameter lying parallel to the earth's surface, we call the cloud Lenticular.] 1894 W. C. Ley Cloudland iv. 50 Rather rarely, I have seen very perfect Lenticular clouds during a frosty afternoon in winter lying above the summits of low hills. 1926 W. J. Humphreys Fogs & Clouds iii. 58 The lenticular cloud..often is only the cloud cap to a stationary..air billow produced as a rule by the flow of the wind over an uneven surface. 1978 A. Welch Bk. Airsports vii. 122/2 (caption) Wave systems are often characterized by smooth-edged lenticular clouds which remain almost stationary in the sky. 1985 National Geographic May 673/1 Wave, or lenticular, clouds.., partly created by strong winds blowing perpendicular to a mountain range. Draft additions 1997 lenticular galaxy n. Astronomy a galaxy having the flattened shape and dense centre characteristic of spiral galaxies, but without discernable spiral arms. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > galaxy > [noun] > lenticular galaxy lenticular galaxy1953 1953 E. E. Smith Second Stage Lensmen xvii. 231 But the Dauntless was not within any lenticular galaxy—nowhere was there any sign of a Milky Way! 1977 J. Narlikar Struct. Universe iii. 68 Apart from this there are lenticular galaxies S0, which resemble the spirals in many respects but which are very much dominated by the bulge. 1992 M. J. West in S. P. Maran Astron. & Astrophysics Encycl. 95/2 The galaxy populations of rich regular clusters tend to be composed primarily of elliptical and S0 (lenticular) galaxies, with only a small fraction of spirals. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1658
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