Lenses is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LENSES in dictionary:

VERB:
• LENS, to make a film of
NOUN:
• 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.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a piece of transparent material used in changing the convergence of light rays

Words related to LENSES

lens4 lense5 lensed7 lensing8

Words that contain LENSES

flenses10

How to use LENSES in a sentence

• The camera man threw a cloth over his lenses and calmly lighted a cigarette.
• By aid of the latter, photographs are taken in absolute darkness, the lenses used being transparent to light rays invisible to the eye, but active photographically.
• Reflected sunlight glinted from oblique surfaces into the light-gathering lenses of the telescanner.
• The construction of portrait lenses was next gone into, the influence of the negative element of the back lens being especially noted.
• In the interior of these lenses we distinguish very fine lines radiating from the center and afterward branching several times.
• In the blaze of the lenses suddenly she saw the truth.
• Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his.
• Old lady, put your glasses on, With polished lenses, mounting golden, And once again look slowly through The album olden.
• Such lenses are called convex or converging lenses.
• For single lenses, the aperture in front should be placed at a distance from it, corresponding to the diameter, and of a size not more than one third of the same.
• There, two lenses were made, one plano-convex, and the other plano-concave, and these were placed in a tube made of sheet copper.
• All attempts to straighten it were vain, so they took out the lenses and went to work making a tube of copper.
• Thus, by means of powerful lenses, and intense lights, the miniature pictures, less than an inch in width, are enlarged to life size.
• Kyral laid out the small forged-steel tools and the coils of thin fine wire, and I unpacked my lenses and laid them out in neat rows.
• The shrouded ones did not move, but the lenses and the wire vanished.
• I noticed that in addition to the microscope lenses and surgical instruments, they had taken all the fine wire.
• Through the powerful lenses the phenomenon seemed at first to be composed of snow-white flowers growing upon the mangrove tops, but presently he saw that the patch was moving.
• Goggles were now a thing of the past, but the eyeglasses, their lenses thick with the combination of formulae which had ruled their grinding, were a permanent necessity.
• Across the lenses no tree flung its green promise of shade.
• He retired to the Hague and took to making lenses, and the study of philosophy.
• When he heard that twelve thousand dollars had been paid for this glass, he was encouraged to try to make such lenses.
• He first got some poor lenses out of old telescopes.
• Gradually they extended the width of their lenses, gaining with each increase of diameter a rapidly increasing power of penetration.
• It is frequently, and especially in projecting apparatus, required to be placed at the focus of a system of lenses, so that the rays may cross in the interior of the prism.

Similar words containing LENSE without suffix s

lense5 flense9 lensed7 flensed11 flenser10 flenses10 flensers11

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