Lens is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LENS in dictionary:

VERB:
• to make a film of
NOUN:
• a piece of transparent matter with one or both surfaces curved to cause regular convergence or divergence of rays passing through it
• a piece of glass or other transparent material with curved sides for concentrating or dispersing light rays, used singly (as in a magnifying glass) or with other lenses (as in a telescope).
• the light-gathering device of a camera, typically containing a group of compound lenses.
• an object or device which focuses or otherwise modifies the direction of movement of light, sound, electrons, etc.
• piece of glass or similar material with one or both sides curved
• A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and the other plane, and commonly used, either singly or combined, in optical instruments, for changing the direction of rays of light, and thus magnifying objects, or otherwise modifying vision. In practice, the curved surfaces are usually spherical, though rarely cylindrical, or of some other figure.
• a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images
• genus of small erect or climbing herbs with pinnate leaves and small inconspicuous white flowers and small flattened pods: lentils
• (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood
• biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focuses light on the retina
• electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a piece of transparent material used in changing the convergence of light rays

Words related to LENS

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Words that contain LENS

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How to use LENS in a sentence

• The city of Lens, within sight of the British lines, from the ridge, is a great mining center.
• We have done our best at Verdun, at Lens and at Ypres, but we have had to retreat everywhere.
• I found the lantern lying, hopelessly bent, with smashed lens, just under the pulpit.
• B is a travelling carriage that holds the lens, and is connected by bellows-work with A.
• You cannot focus on details when using a wide-angle lens in your camera.
• Oh, how different if I had had one definite object which, like the lens, should concentrate all the scattered rays to one focus.
• In January, 1879, an observation was taken, using the old lens, the mirror making 128 turns per second.
• With the new lens, however, this difficulty disappeared, the field being about twenty times the width of the slit.
• C is a frame for holding the negative, on the opposite side of which is a double convex lens facing the light.
• There is, therefore, no advantage in using a combination if a single lens will answer.
• Those rays of light which are traversing a parallel course, when they enter the lens are brought to a focus nearer the lens than others.
• At each touch he examined the surface with his lens to assure himself that he was making the improvement he contemplated.
• And such a map seen through a lens will appear reversed in all respects.
• The camera is opened either at the point where the lights are housed or at the lens point, whichever is most effective.
• We flew out over Lens and crossed the German lines again, skirting the district which the Germans had flooded and then turned our faces homewards.
• Correct exposure depends, of course, on the lens, light and the plate.
• This can be held in position in front of the lens with a rubber band.
• Should a lightning streak appear within the range of the lens it will be made on the plate, which can be developed in the usual manner.
• This reflects the rays of light passing through the lens to the surface K, which may be either of ground or plain glass.
• However, a lens having a reasonable magnifying power can be made in a few minutes for almost nothing.
• The possession of a lens that did better work than anything he had ever known in all his experience was enough in itself to make his boyish heart thrill with joy.
• With a single glance the prince took in the extent of country that lay before him, from Lens as far as Vimy.
• Briefly described it was a small square box, with a lens projecting from it.
• Scarcely two subjects will be found to send exactly the same amount of light through the lens.
• The lens should be put in the same solution, but should remain a few days longer.
• This epoch-making book was the lens by means of which Voltaire gathered together the scattered rays of his English impressions into a focus of brilliant and burning intensity.
• She was standing by the railing, leaning a little outward, the top of her from the waist picked out bright by the lens behind her.

Similar words containing LEN without suffix s

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