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lens
[lenz]
noun
plural
lensesa piece of transparent substance, usually glass, having two opposite surfaces either both curved or one curved and one plane, used in an optical device in changing the convergence of light rays, as for magnification, or in correcting defects of vision.
a combination of such pieces.
some analogous device, as for affecting sound waves, electromagnetic radiation, or streams of electrons.
Anatomy.crystalline lens.
Geology.a body of rock or ore that is thick in the middle and thinner toward the edges, similar in shape to a biconvex lens.
verb (used with object)
Movies.to film (a motion picture).
Lens
1/ lɑ̃, lenz /
noun
an industrial town in N France, in the Pas de Calais department; badly damaged in both World Wars. Pop: 36206 (1999)
lens
2/ ɛԳ /
noun
a piece of glass or other transparent material, used to converge or diverge transmitted light and form optical images
Also called: compound lens.a combination of such lenses for forming images or concentrating a beam of light
a device that diverges or converges a beam of electromagnetic radiation, sound, or particles See electron lens
anatomy See crystalline lens
lens
A transparent structure behind the iris of the eye that focuses light entering the eye on the retina.
A piece of glass or plastic shaped so as to focus or spread light rays that pass through it, often for the purpose of forming an image.
A combination of two or more such lenses, as in a camera or telescope.
A device that causes radiation to converge or diverge by an action analogous to that of an optical lens. The system of electric fields used to focus electron beams in electron microscopes is an example of a lens.
lens
1A piece of transparent material, such as glass, that forms an image from the rays of light passing through it. (See focal length, refraction, and telescope.)
Other 51Թ Forms
- lensless adjective
- lenslike adjective
- unlensed adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of lens1
Example Sentences
During a week of protest, Los Angeles is the center stage of the national immigration debate, with pundits on both sides characterizing the fight through the lens of their respective viewpoints.
I think there’s been a lot of crime dramas and a lot of genre shows or features that don’t have the lens that I have on a man like that.
They tend to focus on him instead through the lens of their own careers.
His answer: “An expansion and continuation of what I think we do best at the Playhouse,” which is to think about the presentation of art and theater through a California lens.
The family story is told through the lens of Charlie Trammell III, a World War II veteran emotionally scarred by the violence he witnessed on the battlefield and at home in Jim Crow Virginia.
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