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| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| Sounds | leh'nz |
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| Rhymes | cleanse, gens, men's, and 2 more rhymes in ehnz... |
| Meaning | A transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images. |
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| Synonyms | lense, lens system |
| Part of | optical instrument |
| Broader | optical device |
| Narrower | anastigmat; anastigmatic lens; camera lens, optical lens; compound lens; condenser, optical condenser; contact, contact lens; converging lens, convex lens; crown lens; diverging lens, concave lens; eyepiece, ocular; field lens; Fresnel lens; intraocular lens; meniscus; monocle, eyeglass; objective, objective lens, object lens, object glass |
| Meaning | Genus of small erect or climbing herbs with pinnate leaves and small inconspicuous white flowers and small flattened pods: lentils. |
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| Synonyms | genus Lens |
| Member of | Papilionoideae, subfamily Papilionoideae |
| Broader | rosid dicot genus |
| Meaning | (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood. |
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| Examples | "the writer is the lens through which history can be seen" |
| Usage | trope, figure of speech, figure, image |
| Broader | channel, communication channel, line |
| Meaning | Biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye. It focuses light waves on the retina. |
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| Synonyms | crystalline lens |
| Part of | eye, oculus, optic |
| Parts | lens capsule |
| Broader | organ |
| Meaning | Electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons. |
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| Synonyms | electron lens |
| Broader | electronic equipment |
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