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lens   (TTS Sound)

The noun lens has 5 senses

• lens, lense, lens system -- (a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images)


• Lens, genus Lens -- (genus of small erect or climbing herbs with pinnate leaves and small inconspicuous white flowers and small flattened pods: lentils)


• lens -- ((metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood; "the writer is the lens through which history can be seen")


• lens, crystalline lens, lens of the eye -- (biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focuses light on the retina)


• lens, electron lens -- (electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons)