LENS
\lˈɛnz], \lˈɛnz], \l_ˈɛ_n_z]\
Definitions of LENS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; it focuses light waves on the retina
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electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons
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a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images
By Princeton University
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biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; it focuses light waves on the retina
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electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons
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a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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A piece of glass or other transparent substance, with one or two curved surfaces, fitted for changing the direction of rays of light; a body in the eyes of animais whose purpose is to bring the rays of light to a point on the sensitive membrane within the eye; the crystalline humor of the eye.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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(optics) A piece of glass or other transparent substance with one or both sides convex, so called from its likeness to a lentil seed: the crystalline humor of the eye.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A transparent part of the eye which focusses rays of light on the retina; the crystalline lens; the modified portion of the cornea in front of each element of a compound eye.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Ervum lens- l. Crystalline, Crystalline- l. Esculenta, Ervum lens.
By Robley Dunglison
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A lentil-shaped glass for refracting light.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A piece of glass or other transparent substance so curved on one or more of its surfaces as to refract rays of light, either dispersing or converging them or rendering them parallel.
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See crystalline l.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Latin] A piece of glass or other transparent substance, ground with two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and the other place, used, either singly or combined, in optical instruments, for changing the direction of rays of light, and thus magnifying objects, or otherwise modifying vision.
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