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Definition of Lens
1. Noun. A transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images.
Specialized synonyms: Anastigmat, Anastigmatic Lens, Camera Lens, Optical Lens, Compound Lens, Condenser, Optical Condenser, Contact, Contact Lens, Converging Lens, Convex Lens, Crown Lens, Concave Lens, Diverging Lens, Eyepiece, Ocular, Field Lens, Fresnel Lens, Intraocular Lens, Meniscus, Eyeglass, Monocle, Object Glass, Object Lens, Objective, Objective Lens
Generic synonyms: Optical Device
Group relationships: Optical Instrument
2. Noun. Genus of small erect or climbing herbs with pinnate leaves and small inconspicuous white flowers and small flattened pods: lentils.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae
3. Noun. (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood. "The writer is the lens through which history can be seen"
Language type: Figure, Figure Of Speech, Image, Trope
4. Noun. Biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focuses light on the retina.
Generic synonyms: Organ
Group relationships: Eye, Oculus, Optic
Terms within: Cortex, Lens Cortex, Lens Capsule
5. Noun. Electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons.
Definition of Lens
1. n. A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and the other plane, and commonly used, either singly or combined, in optical instruments, for changing the direction of rays of light, and thus magnifying objects, or otherwise modifying vision. In practice, the curved surfaces are usually spherical, though rarely cylindrical, or of some other figure.
Definition of Lens
1. Noun. An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it. ¹
2. Noun. A device which focuses or defocuses electron beams. ¹
3. Noun. (geometry) A convex shape bounded by two circular arcs, joined at their endpoints, the corresponding concave shape being a lune. ¹
4. Noun. (biology) A genus of the legume family; its bean. ¹
5. Noun. (anatomy) The transparent crystalline structure in the eye. ¹
6. Noun. (by extension figuratively) A way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something. ¹
7. Verb. (transitive) To film, shoot. ¹
8. Verb. (geology) To become thinner towards the edges. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lens
1. a piece of transparent material used in changing the convergence of light rays [n -ES] : LENSLESS [adj] / to make a film of [v -ED, -ING, -ES]
Medical Definition of Lens
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lens
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