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Categories: Lighthouse fixtures, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference, Solar thermal energy, Lenses, French inventions
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Fresnel lens  Bull's eye lens  Eighth order Fresnel lens  Fifth order Fresnel lens  first order Fresnel lens
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Lens composed of a number of small lenses arranged to make a lightweight lens of large diameter and short focal length WordNet 3.0
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Lens composed of a number of small lenses arranged to make a lightweight lens of large diameter and short focal length WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A Fresnel lens is a type of composite compact lens which reduces the amount of material required compared to a conventional lens by dividing the lens into a set of concentric annular sections. Wikipedia
A type of composite compact lens Wikipedia Disambiguation
Compact composite lens Wikidata
The hollow cylindrical lens used in the Fresnel lantern. Wiktionary
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