English noun: lens |
1. | lens (artifact) a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images |
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| Synonyms | lens system, lense |
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| Broader (hypernym) | optical device |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | anastigmat, anastigmatic lens, camera lens, compound lens, concave lens, condenser, contact, contact lens, converging lens, convex lens, crown lens, diverging lens, eyeglass, eyepiece, field lens, Fresnel lens, intraocular lens, meniscus, monocle, object glass, object lens, objective, objective lens, ocular, optical condenser, optical lens |
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| Part meronym | optical instrument |
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2. | Lens (plant) genus of small erect or climbing herbs with pinnate leaves and small inconspicuous white flowers and small flattened pods: lentils |
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| Synonyms | genus Lens |
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| Broader (hypernym) | rosid dicot genus |
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| Member meronym | Papilionoideae, subfamily Papilionoideae |
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3. | lens (communication) (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood |
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| Samples | The writer is the lens through which history can be seen.
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| Broader (hypernym) | channel, communication channel, line |
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| Domain usage | figure, figure of speech, image, trope |
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4. | lens (body) biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focuses light on the retina |
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| Synonyms | crystalline lens, lens of the eye |
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| Broader (hypernym) | organ |
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| Part holonym | cortex, lens capsule, lens cortex |
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| Part meronym | eye, oculus, optic |
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5. | lens (artifact) electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons |
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| Synonyms | electron lens |
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| Broader (hypernym) | electronic equipment |
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