lens
lens is a 4-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and the other plane, and commonly used, either singly or combined, in optical instruments, for changing the direction of rays of light, and thus magnifying objects, or otherwise modifying vision. In practice, the curved surfaces are usually spherical, though rarely cylindrical, or of some other figure. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and the other plane, and commonly used, either singly or combined, in optical instruments, for changing the direction of rays of light, and thus magnifying objects, or otherwise modifying vision. In practice, the curved surfaces are usually spherical, though rarely cylindrical, or of some other figure.
- noun. a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images
- noun. electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons
- noun. biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focuses light on the retina
- noun. (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood
"the writer is the lens through which history can be seen"
- noun. genus of small erect or climbing herbs with pinnate leaves and small inconspicuous white flowers and small flattened pods: lentils
Synonyms
Common word forms
len, lensed, lenses, lensing, lensless
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