Lens - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- genus of small erect or climbing herbs with pinnate leaves and small inconspicuous white flowers and small flattened pods: lentils
- (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood
- electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons
Extra examples
Make sure the lens of the microscope is clean.
He rinsed the contact lens with saline solution.
He placed a red filter on the camera lens.
...her image was bleared, as if I were staring at it through a watery lens...
Scratches on a camera lens will degrade the image.
The lens inverts the image.
The lens magnified the image 100 times.
...a type of contact lens that proved to be a nidus of infection...
...bathe your contact lens with the solution before inserting them...
Could you help me look for my contact lens?
The lens screws onto the front of the camera.
The surfaces of the concave lens may be proportioned so as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens
Word forms
singular: lens
plural: lenses
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