lens

Meaning of lens

noun
  1. An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.
  2. A device which focuses or defocuses electron beams.
  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.
  6. (earth science) A body of rock, ice, or water shaped like a convex lens.
  7. A construct used in statically-typed functional programming languages to access nested data structures.
  8. (by extension) A way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something.
verb
  1. To film, shoot.
  2. To become thinner towards the edges.

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Hyphenation of lens

lens

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • lens is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

lens synonyms

Meaning lense:

lense

Translation of lens

Anagrams of lens

Nels

Words that rhyme with lens

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