Meaning

• 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