lensed

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of lens.

   Distant galaxies appeared distorted because their light was lensed by a massive cluster.

   The documentary was lensed across four continents over two years.

   Note

   One spelling serves as both past tense and past participle, and which verb it belongs to shows in whether there is an object. In the filmmaking sense the verb is transitive, so it passivizes freely: the series was lensed on location. In the sense of thinning toward the edges it takes no object and has no passive: a layer lensed toward its margins. The -ed is added directly, with no doubled s.

2. 2
   adjectivein compounds

   Equipped with a lens, or with a particular type or arrangement of lenses.

   The instrument is lensed to magnify objects at a great distance.

   Engineers favored a multi-lensed design for the wide-angle shots.

   Note

   A combining adjective far more than a standalone one: it usually ends a hyphenated compound naming the kind or number of lenses, as in multi-lensed or single-lensed. Built simply from lens plus -ed, it says what a thing has rather than how much, so it takes no comparative. Nothing is more lensed than something else. Keep it apart from the past tense of the verb, which describes something done.

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