lentiform
The sandstone beds are lenticular in shape.
This printing method relies on a special lens, called a lenticular lens, to produce the 3D effect.
The load distorts the round shape into a somewhat flattened or lenticular shape.

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Geometry: properties of circles & curves
amplitude
arched
bore
circularity
circumferential
concave
concavity
concentric
concentrically
conic
curvy
domed
eccentric
girth
incisura
lentiform
osculate
parabolic
rectifiable
spiral

lenticularadjective (LENS)

relating to a lens(= a curved piece of glass or plastic that makes objects seem closer, or a part in your eye that does a similar thing):
All three animals have lenticular sclerosis, which affects their eye lenses.
As far as we know, the lenticular correction of sight was understood at that time in vague terms of enlargement.
Corneal and lenticular opacifications are common in this group of patients.
There also exists lenticular astigmatism where the lens shape is irregular, causing distortion.

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polarize
polarized
reflection
reflective
refract
spotting scope
spyglass
transparency

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The eye & surrounding area

Examples of lenticular

lenticular
Because of lack of exposures, it is unclear whether the lower fine-grained deposits also have a lenticular outline.
This is overlain by a thin lenticular ignimbrite flow-unit draped by a fine ash layer, and buried by thick massive lapilli-tuff.
The inflated lenticular aerofoil is a reflexion plane model for this case, but only if boundary-layer effects are neglected.
This body is lenticular in plan and wedge-shaped in elevation.
These bodies are often lenticular, but in some cases are sheetlike.
Lenticular bedding occurs both as single and connected forms, and contains symmetrical and asymmetrical ripple forms.
A study has been made of the flow past thin, inflated lenticular aerofoils at zero angle of incidence.
Stimulus sources were held in stainless steel wirescreen lenticular enclosures (7 cm diameter), placed within the container elements of the traps.
Where the air rises condensation can take place and roll clouds or lenticular clouds form.
The beds are lenticular over some distance but do not show drastic changes in thickness.
In the southeast, the partially crystallized cumulates of the gabbro series were intruded by a lenticular, ultramafic pluton 800 m in thickness.
The conglomerates are generally well bedded in tabular to broadly lenticular sheets.
It would, of course, also be interesting to investigate the possibility of finding regions suitable for life in elliptical, lenticular, irregular and active galaxies.
The latter are clast-supported, and range from internally massive to crudely bedded, with laterally lenticular sandy splays.
In places in the bottom parts of these units, lenticular to wavy ripples show alternate palaeoflow direction.
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