lens
- Noun. An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.
- Noun. A device which focuses or defocuses electron beams.
- Noun. (geometry) A convex shape bounded by two circular arcs, joined at their endpoints, the corresponding concave shape being a lune.
- Noun. (biology) A genus of the legume family; its bean.
- Noun. (anatomy) The transparent crystalline structure in the eye.
- Noun. (by extension, figuratively) A way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something.
- Verb. (transitive) To film, shoot.
- Verb. (geology) To become thinner towards the edges.
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