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Record 1 2013-12-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radio Transmission and Reception
  • Telecommunications Facilities
CONT

A delay lens may be made of a real dielectric or an artificial dielectric. It is very similar to an optical lens and can be designed by ray analysis methods of geometrical optics.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Émission et réception radio
  • Installations de télécommunications

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Radiotransmisión y radiorrecepción
  • Instalaciones de telecomunicaciones
DEF

Lente utilizada para transferir un haz de luz de un lugar a otro.

OBS

Lente, término ambiguo no diferenciado, es decir que el significado conceptual se mantiene no importando el género que se use. De acuerdo a la Real Academia Española: “Es válido su uso en ambos géneros en cualquiera de sus acepciones, aunque las preferencias son distintas según las zonas; así, cuando significa "pieza transparente que se emplea en instrumentos ópticos", en España se usa en femenino, mientras que en América alternan ambos géneros, con cierta preferencia por el masculino […]”

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