Definition: 1. A transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images. 2. (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood. 3. Biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; it focuses light waves on the retina. 4. Electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons.
Use 'lens' in a sentence:
1. Her contact lenses turned her eyes green.
2. These data suggest that nonenzymatic glycosylation of lens crystallins may contribute to cataract formation.
3. Have you got your lenses in?
4. She could see herself in the reflecting lenses, which had grotesquely foreshortened her.
5. Lens equation is derived by using Fermat's principle.
6. Each cluster includes a pair of eyes with a sophisticated lens, retina, iris and cornea. Scientists aren't sure how they process what they see.
7. He photographed this using a macro lens.
8. The lesions were found in the conjunctiva, episclera, cornea, iris, lens, vitreous, and retina.
9. Its lens, no bigger than a small raindrop, magnified objects hundreds of times.
10. He focuses the lens of a microscope.
11. Through this clear lens, problems become challenges, and challenges become opportunities for learning.
12. It has a lens system to focus light onto the film at the back of the camera.
13. Therefore we will use a more comprehensive lens to look at M&As in the thesis.
14. A good tip is to buy the most expensive lens you can afford.
15. In that book, he examined Japanese society through the lens of law.
16. Mrs Bierce wears thick bifocal lenses.
17. They're lenses because they're convex vessels, and when they're full of water, they act as a lens and you see the horizon in them, upside down and backwards.
18. We need a filter or a lens to talk about then what is ultimately in control.
19. He took off his spectacles and rubbed frantically at the lens.
20. The lens of the eye accommodate to distance.
21. There are two prismatic lens covers on my aquarium.
22. Lens can be made for microscopes.
23. This is a traditional fuel rod lens that glows underwater.
24. A bank of telephoto lenses homed in on him.
25. A lens would magnify the picture so it would be like looking at a large TV screen.
26. To prep the eye to receive the tooth and lens, the doctors placed a graft over the eye to promote moisture.
27. The eyes behind the lenses were dark and quick-moving, taking in everything at a glance.
28. Analyzing and comparing cities using the lens of this basic divide gives interesting context to how investment capital flows and housing prices have shifted.
29. What's the strength of the lenses of your glasses?
30. Why aren't all lenses supplied with a lens hood?
31. Use a weatherproof rucksack to carry your camera and lenses around in.
32. I send him the blend calendar and the splendid bent lens he lent to me.
33. When getting a new prescription, make sure the lenses have an antireflective coating.
34. The lens of this camera can be pulled back and forth.
35. The Petzval's portrait lens is the first mathematically calculated lens.
36. Cataracts is a condition that affects the transparency of the lenses.
37. I packed your sunglasses with the green lenses.
38. What about it trivializes that crime? I guess it's just that there's no moral lens that we're looking at it through.
39. The daguerreotype was a unique image that reproduced what was in front of the camera lens in minute, unselective detail and could not be duplicated.
40. Some of these phenomena can also be tracked through the historian's lens, but some are, I believe, genuinely new.
41. The lens of a camera forms images.
42. The curved glass had a magnifying effect, like a lens.
43. Water surges from the cells on the inside of the leaf to those on the outside, causing the leaf to rapidly flip in shape from convex to concave, like a soft contact lens.
44. People living or working with smokers can find it uncomfortable to wear contact lenses because the smoke causes irritation.
45. The camera has a 32mm lens with a maximum aperture of f/ 4.5 and a fixed shutter speed of 1/ 100sec.
46. The mascara is suitable for contact lens wearers.
47. Your camcorder should have these basic features: autofocus, playback facility, zoom lens.
48. Some adjustment of the lens may be necessary.
49. I sometimes wear contact lenses.
50. Wash the lenses in saline solution.
51. Opacity of the eye lens can be induced by deficiency of certain vitamins.
52. As we age the lenses of the eyes thicken, and thus refract light differently.
53. The flexibility of the lens decreases with age; it is therefore common for our sight to worsen as we get older.
