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Focal length   /fˈoʊkəl lɛŋkθ/   Listen
adjective
Focal  adj.  Belonging to,or concerning, a focus; as, a focal point.
Focal distance or
Focal length, of a lens or mirror
(Opt.), the distance of the focus from the surface of the lens or mirror, or more exactly, in the case of a lens, from its optical center.
Focal distance of a telescope, the distance of the image of an object from the object glass.






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"Focal length" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Cambridgeport, Boston, Mass. One of their most famous telescopes is the great Lick Refractor now in use on Mount Hamilton in California. The diameter of this object-glass is thirty-six inches, and its focal length is fifty-six feet two inches. A still greater effort has recently been made by the same firm in the refractor of forty inches aperture for the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago. The telescope, which is seventy-five feet in length, ...
— The Story of the Heavens • Robert Stawell Ball



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