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fresnel

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Checking out some of the Fresnel videos on Youtube really helps one appreciate the power of the Sun.

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Quick take

A Fresnel lens or a light feature using such a lens

Meaning at a glance

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noun

A Fresnel lens or a light feature using such a lens

noun

A surname from French, notably held by Augustin-Jean Fresnel.

noun

(physics) A unit of frequency equal to 10¹² hertz, or one terahertz.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for fresnel.

noun

A Fresnel lens or a light feature using such a lens

noun

A surname from French, notably held by Augustin-Jean Fresnel.

noun

(physics) A unit of frequency equal to 10¹² hertz, or one terahertz.

Example sentences

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Checking out some of the Fresnel videos on Youtube really helps one appreciate the power of the Sun.

2

These holograms are essentially a set of overlaid Fresnel lenses, and they work by the same principle?

3

Say you are just 1 mile from a friend, at 151Mhz the fresnel zone is 72ft tall.

4

You can make a thin lens by splitting it into many discontinuous parts, this is how a Fresnel lens works.

5

That's why you can build a Fresnel lens which is, so to speak, all surface.

6

This is really cool, although leaving that size of fresnel lens uncovered makes me nervous.

7

Just behind the LCD/film is a collimating lens (usually a Fresnel lens), which ensures that all the light produced by the lamp is focussed so that it passes through the first lens.

8

Possibly a Fresnel lens, if it can be made so that the ridges doesn't distort the screen image and cause weird patterns.

9

In an outdoor environment you also should keep 60% of the fresnel zone clear.

10

These processes naturally induce losses (non-radiative decay in the phosphor, Fresnel losses at one of the BEFs, no perfect reflection on the back mirror).

11

I built a rig with my son using a 65 inch Fresnel lens we harvested from an old rear projection TV.

12

Essentially it's energy-conserving materials with the correct fresnel effect based on the surface's IOR which takes things to the next level (for games at least).

Quote examples

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Probably rather "Fresnel equations" and "interestingly shaped surfaces", along with "fluorescence".

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use fresnel in a sentence?

Checking out some of the Fresnel videos on Youtube really helps one appreciate the power of the Sun.

What does fresnel mean?

A Fresnel lens or a light feature using such a lens

What part of speech is fresnel?

fresnel is commonly used as noun.