lens

Reikšmė (anglų kalba)

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. A way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something.

Verb

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

Tariama kaip (IPA)

/lɛnz/

Etimologija (anglų kalba)

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”).

Sakiniai

Over the years the light had several different lens .

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