lens
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Latin lēns
Arabic عَدْسَة (ʕadsa)sl.
Medieval Latin lēnsbor.
English 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”); the similar shape is the common factor.
Inflected forms:
form: lenses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lens
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
plural
form: lentes
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
form: lense
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lenses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lensing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lensed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lensed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: lense
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A device which focuses or defocuses other waves or radiation, such as microwave radiation, electron beams, sound waves (acoustic lenses), or explosions (explosive lenses).
pos: noun
gloss: A convex shape bounded by two circular arcs, joined at their endpoints, the corresponding concave shape being a lune.
pos: noun
gloss: The transparent crystalline structure in the eye.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A body of rock, ice, or water shaped like a convex lens.
pos: noun
gloss: A convex layer of fresh groundwater that floats above the denser saltwater, usually found on small coral or limestone islands and atolls.
pos: noun
gloss: A construct used in statically-typed functional programming languages to access nested data structures.
pos: noun
gloss: A way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: 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."
No film should be revised based on the lenses we now are, either voluntarily, or being forced to peer through.
gloss: To film, shoot.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To become thinner towards the edges.
pos: verb
Derived words: achromatic lens
Barlow lens
best form lens
burning lens
capsule of lens
circle contact lens
circle lens
close-up lens
contact lens
converging lens
convex lens
corrective lens
corrugated lens
crystalline lens
delens
digital single-lens reflex
digital single-lens reflex camera
dual-lens reflex
echelon lens
explosive lens
eye lens
field lens
fish-eye lens
fisheye lens
Fresnel lens
goniolens
gravitational lens
hyperlens
immersion lens
kit lens
lensatic
lens blank
lens board
lens brush
lens cap
lensectomy
lenser
lens flare
lensfree
lenshound
lensless
lenslet
lenslike
lens louse
lensmaker
lensmaking
lensman
lensmeter
lensoid
lensoidal
lensometry
lenswoman
lenticel
lenticular
lenticule
lentil
lentoid
long-focus lens
long lens
macro lens
macrolens
magnetic lens
Mediterranean lens
metalens
microlens
multiplying lens
nanolens
narrow-angle lens
normal lens
objective lens
ocular lens
pancake lens
pebble lens
Petzval lens
prime lens
semilens
shoot the lens
single lens reflex
single-lens reflex
spot lens
standard lens
sublens
superlens
telephotographic lens
telephoto lens
twin-lens reflex
varifocal lens
water lens
wide-angle lens
zoom lens
zoom-lens reflex
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