lens

(Αγγλικός)

Noun

1. An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.
2. A device which focuses or defocuses electron beams.
3. A convex shape bounded by two circular arcs, joined at their endpoints, the corresponding concave shape being a lune.
4. A genus of the legume family; its bean.
5. The transparent crystalline structure in the eye.
6. A body of rock, ice, or water shaped like a convex lens.
7. A construct used in statically-typed functional programming languages to access nested data structures.
8. (broadly, figuratively) A way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something.

Verb

1. (transitive) To film, shoot.
2. To become thinner towards the edges.

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/lɛnz/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Borrowed from Latin lēns (“lentil”), with Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of “lens”, a semantic loan from Arabic عَدْسَة (ʕadsa, “lentil; optic lens”).

Έννοιες

φακός

κάτοπτρο

φακή

φακοί

κρυσταλλοειδής φακός

Συνώνυμα

crystalline lens

electron lens

objective

lens system

eyeglass

lense

lentil

spectacles

👓

lenticle

glass

lens of the eye

cornea

magnifying glass

shot

single eyeglass

speculum

torch

glass block

object-glass

lentil plant

optical lens

acoustic lens

magnetic lens

sound lens

electronic lens

contact

ophthalmic lens

crystalline

eyeglasses

👓

eyepiece

flashlight

🔦

glasses

magnifier

microscope

🔬

optic

pebble

pupil

reflector

scene

Μεταφράσεις

Linse

lentille

lente

lens

lente

lente

soczewka

cristallin

Objektiv

mercek

cristalino

cristalino

cristallino

lent

obiettivo

Προτάσεις

Over the years the light had several different lens .

Με τα χρόνια το φως είχε αρκετούς διαφορετικούς φακούς.