lens

What does lens mean?

• noun

  genus of small erect or climbing herbs with pinnate leaves and small inconspicuous white flowers and small flattened pods: lentils

• noun

  electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons

• noun

  a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images

• noun

  biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focus light on the retina

• noun

  (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood

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