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- 1A clear piece of glass or plastic that bends light to make things look bigger, smaller, or sharper.
Like a magnifying glass that makes tiny letters look big.
A camera lens can make faraway things look close.
She wiped the lens clean before taking the photo.
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- 2The clear, curved part inside the eye that focuses light onto the back of the eye.
Like the focusing part of a camera, but built into your eye.
The lens in your eye helps you see things clearly.
As people get older, the lens can slowly turn cloudy.
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- 3A particular point of view used to look at or judge something.
Like wearing colored glasses that change how everything looks.
She looked at the problem through the lens of her own experience.
Through a child's lens, the world is full of wonder.
Similarprism, perspective, filter, viewpoint
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- 4A device that uses magnetic or electric fields to focus or spread out a beam of electrons.
Like a glass lens for light, but it works on tiny electrons instead.
The microscope uses a lens to focus a beam of electrons.
Without a good lens, the electron beam spreads out too much.
- 5A mass of rock, ice, or water shaped like a curved disk that is thicker in the middle.
Like a flat blob that bulges in the middle and thins out at the edges.
Drillers found a lens of sand trapped between two layers of clay.
A lens of fresh water can float on top of heavier salt water underground.
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- 6To film or record something with a camera.
They will lens the wedding next weekend.
A small crew lensed the whole movie in one month.
Similarfilm, shoot, photograph
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- 7A pointed oval shape made by two curved lines that meet at both ends, like the space where two circles cross.
Where the two circles cross, they make a lens shape.
He drew a lens by overlapping two equal circles.
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- 8A programming tool that lets code reach and change values stored deep inside other values.
Like a tool that reaches into a box inside a box to grab just one thing.
A lens lets you change one value buried deep inside others.
Programmers use a lens to read values stored several layers deep.
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- 9A group of small legume plants, or the round, flat bean they produce.
Like a pea plant, but its beans are small and flat.
Farmers grow lens for its small, nourishing beans.
A bowl of cooked lens makes a filling, cheap meal.
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- 10To grow gradually thinner toward the edges, like a layer that slowly fades out.
Like a puddle that gets shallower and shallower until its edge fades away.
The clay layers lens out where they meet the old riverbed.
Coal seams often lens, getting thinner until they disappear.
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Origin
From Latin lēns, meaning "lentil." Later Latin used it to mean "lens" because a lens has a lentil-like shape.