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Defenition of the word lens

    • Defenition of the word lens

      • An optical device with perfect or approximate axial symmetry which transmits and refracts light, concentrating or diverging the beam.
      • Transparent, biconvex natural lens inside the eye that, along with the cornea, refracts light to be focused on the retina, and whose shape can be modified by muscles to adapt the focal distance.
      • biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; it focuses light waves on the retina
      • equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons
      • genus of small erect or climbing herbs with pinnate leaves and small inconspicuous white flowers and small flattened pods: lentils
      • a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images
      • electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons
      • (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood; "the writer is the lens through which history can be seen"
      • biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focuses light on the retina
      • (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood

    Synonyms for the word lens

      • crystalline lens
      • electron lens
      • genus Lens
      • Lens
      • lens system

    Meronymys for the word lens

      • eye
      • lens capsule
      • oculus
      • optic
      • optical instrument
      • Papilionoideae
      • subfamily Papilionoideae

    Hyponyms for the word lens

      • anastigmat
      • anastigmatic lens
      • camera lens
      • compound lens
      • concave lens
      • condenser
      • contact
      • contact lens
      • converging lens
      • convex lens
      • crown lens
      • diverging lens
      • eyeglass
      • eyepiece
      • field lens
      • Fresnel lens
      • intraocular lens
      • meniscus
      • monocle
      • object glass
      • object lens
      • objective
      • objective lens
      • ocular
      • optical condenser
      • optical lens

    Hypernyms for the word lens

      • channel
      • communication channel
      • electronic equipment
      • line
      • optical device
      • organ
      • rosid dicot genus

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