Definition of Lens
Noun: lens lenz
- A transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images
- lense [non-standard], lens system
- (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood
"the writer is the lens through which history can be seen"
- Biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focuses light on the retina
- crystalline lens, lens of the eye
- Electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons
- electron lens
- Cause light to bend, as with a lens
"the glass lensed the light"
- Genus of small erect or climbing herbs with pinnate leaves and small inconspicuous white flowers and small flattened pods: lentils
- genus Lens
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