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Meaning of 'lens' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Lens [ n.]
- A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and the other plane, and commonly used, either singly or combined, in optical instruments, for changing the direction of rays of light, and thus magnifying objects, or otherwise modifying vision. In practice, the curved surfaces are usually spherical, though rarely cylindrical, or of some other figure.

Meaning of 'lens' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . lens [ n]
Meaning (1):
- (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood
Example in sentence:
  • the writer is the lens through which history can be seen

Nearby Words:

lena lend lendable lender lendes lending lends lene lenger lengest

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