lens

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noun

1. a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images (Freq. 5)
• Syn:
lense, lens system
• Hypernyms:
optical device
• Hyponyms:
anastigmat, anastigmatic lens, camera lens, optical lens, compound lens,
condenser, optical condenser, contact, contact lens, converging lens, convex lens,
crown lens, diverging lens, concave lens, eyepiece, ocular, field lens,
Fresnel lens, intraocular lens, meniscus, monocle, eyeglass, objective,
objective lens, object lens, object glass
• Part Holonyms:
optical instrument
2. (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood
- the writer is the lens through which history can be seen
• Usage Domain:
trope, figure of speech, figure, image
• Hypernyms:
channel, communication channel, line
3. electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons
• Syn:
electron lens
• Hypernyms:
electronic equipment
4. biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye;
its role (along with the cornea) is to focuses light on the retina
• Syn:
crystalline lens, lens of the eye
• Hypernyms:
organ
• Part Holonyms:
eye, oculus, optic
• Part Meronyms:
lens cortex, cortex, lens capsule

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  electron lens, crystalline lens, lens of the eye, Lens, genus Lens, lense, lens system