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Con-ca′vo-con′vex lens.

A lens whose sides are respectively concave and convex, the latter face having a curve of the greater radius, so that the lens is thicker at the margin than elsewhere.

It differs from a meniscus in that the concave face of the latter has the larger radius, and the margin is an edge where the two faces run together.

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