fres'nel' lan'tern

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fres'nel' lan'tern - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Fresnel lamp \Fres`nel" lamp"\, Fres'nel' lan'tern \Fres'nel'
  lan'tern\[From Fresnel the inventor, a French physicist.]
     A lantern having a lamp surrounded by a hollow cylindrical
     Fresnel lens.
     [1913 Webster]