gravitational lens
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.41 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A distribution of matter whose gravitational field bends the path of light rays sufficiently to distort, magnify or multiply images of more distant objects.
Example Sentences
- "Thus the galactic gravitational lens effect is not important in maintaining the radio reference coordinate system with mas accuracy, if quasars as fiduciary points are pertinently selected."
- "The two other examples of gravitational lenses discussed above have not been modeled as elaborately."
- "Subsequent discoveries of several more examples of gravitational lenses eliminated all doubts about gravitational focussing predicted by general relativity."