What is another word for lens?

Pronunciation: [lˈɛnz] (IPA)

The word "lens" is commonly used to describe an optical device that can magnify or focus light. However, there are several synonyms that can be used interchangeably with this term. "Optic" is a popular term that can refer to any device that uses light to create an image. "Prism" can also be used as another synonym for a lens, especially in situations where a light beam needs to be split or redirected. "Optical element" is another synonym that can be used to describe a lens, particularly when discussing engineering or scientific aspects of these devices. Finally, "ocular" is another synonym that can be used to describe a lens, and is typically preferred in medical contexts.

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What are the hypernyms for Lens?

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What are the hyponyms for Lens?

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What are the holonyms for Lens?

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  • holonyms for lens (as nouns)

    • artifact
      optical instrument.

Usage examples for Lens

Our troops attacked on a wide front including the Vimy Ridge-that grim hill which dominates the plain of Douai and the coalfields of lens-and the German positions around Arras.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
They attacked the little wooded hill called the Bois de Riaumont, just to the south of the city, and with great cunning and courage encircled its lower slopes, and made their way into the street of houses behind the line of trees which is the southern way towards lens.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
From prisoners we know that wild scenes took place in lens, frantic efforts being made to get away the guns and the stores, to defend the line of retreat by the blowing up of roads, to carry out the orders for complete destruction by firing charges down the mine-shafts, flooding the great mine-galleries so that French property of enormous value should not be left to France, and withdrawing large bodies of troops down the roads under the fire of our long-range guns.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs

Famous quotes with Lens

  • I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get.
    Andre Agassi
  • Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be. When I was moving around with the lens, I discovered things that the naked eye would not have.
    Pedro Almodovar
  • From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.
    Julia Margaret Cameron
  • I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
    Rita Dove
  • In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.
    Alan Dundes

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