lens

/lษ›nz/

IPA: /L EH1 N Z/

noun
  1. 1

    An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.

  2. 2

    A device which focuses or defocuses electron beams.

  3. 3

    A convex shape bounded by two circular arcs, joined at their endpoints, the corresponding concave shape being a lune.

  4. 4

    A genus of the legume family; its bean.

  5. 5

    The transparent crystalline structure in the eye.

  6. 6

    (earth science) A body of rock, ice, or water shaped like a convex lens.

  7. 7

    A construct used in statically-typed functional programming languages to access nested data structures.

  8. 8

    (by extension) A way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something.

verb
  1. 1

    To film, shoot.

  2. 2

    To become thinner towards the edges.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lens