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Lens
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- 1 A municipality in Hainaut, Belgium.
- 2 A commune in Pas-de-Calais department, Hauts-de-France, France.
- 3 A municipality in Valais canton, Switzerland.
- 1 An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.
"Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field."
- 2 a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images wordnet
- 3 A device which focuses or defocuses electron beams.
- 4 electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons wordnet
- 5 A convex shape bounded by two circular arcs, joined at their endpoints, the corresponding concave shape being a lune.
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- 6 biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focus light on the retina wordnet
- 7 A genus of the legume family; its bean.
- 8 (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood wordnet
- 9 The transparent crystalline structure in the eye.
"The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail."
- 10 A body of rock, ice, or water shaped like a convex lens.
- 11 A construct used in statically-typed functional programming languages to access nested data structures.
- 12 A way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something. broadly, figuratively
"If "the public looks at the condition of America's children largely through a negative lens," worries Child Trends[…], "it may be more difficult to […] promote child well-being.""
- 1 To film, shoot. transitive
"It’s set in an anonymous, upper-middle-class suburb, lensed in the generic gunmetal gray that will one day appear as dated as the fuzzy outlines of ’80s direct-to-video horror movies."
- 2 To become thinner towards the edges.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lēns (“lentil”), with Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of “lens”, a semantic loan from Arabic عَدْسَة (ʕadsa, “lentil; optic lens”).
Borrowed from Latin lēns (“lentil”), with Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of “lens”, a semantic loan from Arabic عَدْسَة (ʕadsa, “lentil; optic lens”).
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