Meaning of lens | Babel Free

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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