lens

Definitions

1. An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.
2. A municipality in Hainaut, Belgium.
3. crystalline
4. A device which focuses or defocuses electron beams.
5. A commune in Pas-de-Calais department, Hauts-de-France, France.
6. A convex shape bounded by two circular arcs, joined at their endpoints, the corresponding concave shape being a lune.
7. A municipality in Valais canton, Switzerland.
8. A genus of the legume family; its bean.
9. The transparent crystalline structure in the eye.
10. A body of rock, ice, or water shaped like a convex lens.
11. A construct used in statically-typed functional programming languages to access nested data structures.
12. A way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something.
    broadly, figuratively

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Examples

“Not long ago, it was difficult to produce⟳ photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus⟳. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce⟳ a narrow depth of field.”

“The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take⟳ in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light⟳ sensitivity. They also have⟳ high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.”

“If "the public looks at the condition of America's children largely through a negative lens," worries Child Trends[…], "it may be more difficult to […] promote⟳ child well-being."”

“No film should be revised based on the lenses we now are, either voluntarily, or being forced to peer through.”

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