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  • s  convex on both sides; shaped like a lentil

  • The rest proved to be anything from lenticular clouds to runaway balloons, kites to jet-engine exhaust.
  • This habit creates an excessive lenticular convexity which, over a period of time, causes a focal point in front of the retina, thereby producing a myopic or nearsighted condition.
  • After experiments with a small, self-propelled model, Designer Willy Fiedler decided that the lenticular shape, made of two strong metal saucers joined at their edges, is the .
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  • Out of the Ordinary | Space Wallpaper
    In this space wallpaper—among a crowd of face- and edge-on spiral, elliptical, and irregular galaxies in the constellation of Virgo—lies NGC 4866, which is a lenticular galaxy situated about 80 million light-years from Earth.
    July 17, 2013 - SPACE.com

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