(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:46:40

Fres`nel" lamp" (?), Fres'nel' lan'tern (?). [From Fresnel the inventor, a French physicist.]

A lantern having a lamp surrounded by a hollow cylindrical Fresnel lens.

© Webster 1913.

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