lenticular
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- adjective
- /lɛnˈtɪkjələr/
- Specialized
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lenticular
- Bright colors (called irisation) are sometimes seen along the edge of lenticular clouds.
- lenticular process
But when it hits that lenticular sheet, it diverges.
- But when it hits that lenticular sheet, it diverges.
- I wrote diffusion and lenticular lens extension.
Examples
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To complicate matters, the large photo here is lenticular, so it changes as you walk around it.
Blog text (29) -
The artist painted a stunning landscape featuring lenticular clouds that formed above the mountains.
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So, you know, you can look for these lenticular clouds.
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So then it creates A lenticular screen and you can see that looks like Doom.
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The phase diagram has a lenticular shape, Looks like a lens.
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Lenticular cloud to the southeast.
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A lenticular image of Carleton Gamet, holding his prizes, is on the cover of the January 2009 Center News.
Academic text (2009) -
The sun, still below the horizon, barely brightened the fierce lenticular cloud that wrapped the upper mountain.
Blog text (26) -
The chamber was dim; a great lenticular bulge in the roof held water; windblown ripples modulated light from the sky and sent it dancing around the hall.
Fiction book (1993) -
Lenticular galaxies (S0) are an intermediate case: they have a flattened disc and distinct nucleus, like spirals, but no arms, like ellipticals.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
A shape with both sides curved outward like a lens
A lens-shaped form that curves outward on both sides
Shaped like a flat round lens with both sides curved
Curved outward on both sides like a lens
Compounds
- Specialized
A lens-shaped part of the brain made of gray matter that helps control movements you choose
How Convex
Surface Forms
Morphology
lenticular = lentil (semi-transparent) = lentil + ular
The adjective means 'lens- or lentil-shaped' and is formed by adding a learned adjectival suffix ('-ular') to the lentil/LATIN base; connection to the base is clear but the suffix and internal spelling change make it less transparently analysable for learners.
Etymology
Lenticular comes from a Latin word for a small bean, the same root behind lentil and lens, because a lens looks like a 'lentil'. So something lenticular is 'lens-shaped' or curved on both sides, like a thin lentil.