virtual image

Noun

Meaning

virtual image (plural virtual images)

(optics) The image formed by light rays diverging from a convex mirror or concave lens

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Examples

Likewise, it appears to a subsequent lens as if it were an object at that location, so that second lens could again focus that light into a real image, S 1 then being measured from the virtual image location behind the first lens to the second lens. Source: Internet

Because of the reflection, these second waves appear to come from a second antenna behind the plane, just as a visible object in front of a flat mirror forms a virtual image that seems to lie behind the mirror. Source: Internet

Rays from an object at finite distance are associated with a virtual image that is closer to the lens than the focal point, and on the same side of the lens as the object. Source: Internet

The closer the object is to the lens, the closer the virtual image is to the lens. Source: Internet

The reflection in the water is a virtual image of the Sun and the streetlight. Source: Internet

Organizations may be moving virtual image files to and from branch offices or some other location. Source: Internet

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