Definitions for crown-glass

crown-glass crown glass

Crown-Glass is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 556 anagrams from letters in crown-glass (-acglnorssw).

Definitions for crown-glass

noun

  1. an optical glass of low dispersion and generally low index of refraction.
  2. an old form of window glass formed by blowing a globe and whirling it into a disk.

Origin of crown-glass

First recorded in 1700-10

Examples for crown-glass

Thus, the spectrum formed by flint glass is longer than that formed by crown glass, for the same deviation.

These works, in which plate and every kind of crown glass is made, are situated at West Bromwich.

It is of two different kinds; namely, crown glass and flint glass.

The achromatic lens consists of a double convex lens of crown glass combined with a plano-concave lens of flint glass.

crown glass comes next, or window glass, formed in large circular plates or discs.

The focal length of double convex lenses of crown glass is about the same as the radius of curvature of either surface.

These bull's eyes were the centers or waste from large discs of crown glass after all the big pieces possible had been cut away.

Thus the dispersive power of flint glass and balsam are about equal, while that of crown glass is considerably less.

The change amounts to the addition of a double convex lens of crown glass having a radius of a third of an inch.

The pot is an inverted truncated cone, like a crown glass pot.

Word Value for crown-glass
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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