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    Lens
    Lens (lĕnz) noun ; plural Lenses (-ĕz). [ Latin lens a lentil. So named from the resemblance in shape of a double convex lens to the seed of a lentil. Confer Lentil .] (Opt.) A piece of glass, or other tr...
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    lens
    <physics> A transparent optical element, so constructed that it serves to change the degree of convergence or divergence of the transmitted rays. ... (05 Aug 1998) ...
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    lens
    lense noun a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images
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    lens
    crystalline lens noun biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; it focuses light waves on the retina
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    lens
    noun (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood; `the writer is the lens through which history can be seen`
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    Lens
    genus Lens noun genus of small erect or climbing herbs with pinnate leaves and small inconspicuous white flowers and small flattened pods: lentils
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    lens
    noun electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons
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    lens
    (lenz) a piece of glass or other transparent material so shaped as to converge or scatter light rays. See also glasses Lenses: (A–F), Spherical lenses: (A), biconvex; (B), biconcave; (C), planoconvex; (D), planoconcave; (E), concavoconvex, periscopic convex, converging meniscus; (F...
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    Lens
    • (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 objec...
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    lens
    (from the article `ocean`) Over many decades this process forms a deep lens of warm, saline North Atlantic Central Water. The shape of the lens of water is distorted by other ...
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    Lens
    industrial town, Pas-de-Calais département, Nord-Pas-de-Calais région, northern France, southwest of Lille. It was the chief urban centre of the ...
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    lens
    in anatomy, a nearly transparent biconvex structure suspended behind the iris of the eye, the sole function of which is to focus light rays onto the ... [9 related articles]
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    lens
    in optics, piece of glass or other transparent substance that is used to form an image of an object by focusing rays of light from the object. A ... [29 related articles]
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