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