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Lens

noun

(pl. lenses)

A transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images. Synonyms: lens system, lense.

Genus of small erect or climbing herbs with pinnate leaves and small inconspicuous white flowers and small flattened pods: lentils. Synonym: genus Lens.

(metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood.

Biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focuses light on the retina. Synonyms: crystalline lens, lens of the eye.

Electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons. Synonym: electron lens.

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"Lens" Quotes from Famous Books

... the doctor swiveled out another eyepiece for his own use and turned a knob on the side of the machine. From the lens next to his arm an almost invisible needle slid out and entered his flesh. Bolden could see it come into the field of view. It didn't hurt. Slowly it approached the dark branching filament, never ...

— Bolden's Pets • F. L. Wallace

... curious scene in our salon the day after the news had come of the great victory of Lens. Clement Darpent had been brought in by my brother, who wished him to hear some English songs which my sister and I had been practicing. He had been trying to learn English, and perhaps understood it better than he could speak ...

— Stray Pearls • Charlotte M. Yonge

... poser. I had certainly seen through those spectacles as clearly as if they had been plain window-glass; and they had certainly given an inverted reflection of the candle-flame like that thrown from the surface of a concave lens. Now they obviously could not be both flat and concave; but yet they had the properties peculiar to both flatness and concavity. And there was a further difficulty. If I could see objects unaltered ...

— The Mystery of 31 New Inn • R. Austin Freeman

... was better done at Lens,' said my fellow-traveller. 'Do you know Lens? They are all miners there, you know—very curious people. I suppose they were glad to come up from under the ground and look at us. Some of the women, too, were pretty—really very pretty. It was all very well arranged. There is a good ...

— France and the Republic - A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces - During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 • William Henry Hurlbert

... gaze, And see as in the camera's gloom, The island with its belt of bays, Its chieftained heights all capped with broom, Which as the living lens it fills, Now seems a giant charmed to sleep— Now a broad shield embossed with hills Upon the ...

— Poems • Denis Florence MacCarthy

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