lens

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(noun.)

ADJ

strong, thick

His glasses have such strong lenses that everything looks magnified when you look through them.

coloured, tinted | contact | optical, spectacle | camera

fish-eye, long, long-focus, magnifying, telephoto, telescopic, wide-angle, zoom

The wildlife photographer attached a telephoto lens to capture the distant elephant herd in sharp detail.

LENS + NOUN

cap

Before taking the photograph, she remembered to remove the lens cap from her new camera.

PREP

through a/the ~

When I looked through the lens of the microscope, I could see tiny bacteria swimming around.

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noun

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 device which focuses or defocuses other waves or radiation, such as microwave radiation, electron beams, sound waves (acoustic lenses), or explosions (explosive lenses).

3

A convex shape bounded by two circular arcs, joined at their endpoints, the corresponding concave shape being a lune.

4

A genus of the legume family; its bean.

5

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.

verb

1

To film, shoot.

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.

name

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.

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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 fie

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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 spa

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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."

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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.

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Through the lens the image was inverted.

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Will you find my contact lens for me?

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