LENSE

• LENSE (noun)
  The noun LENSE has 1 sense:

1. a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images

  Familiarity information: LENSE used as a noun is very rare.

• LENSE (noun)

Meaning:

A transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

lens; lens system; lense

Hypernyms ("lense" is a kind of...):

optical device (a device for producing or controlling light)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lense"):

anastigmat (compound lens or lens system designed to be free of astigmatism and able to form approximately point images)

object glass; object lens; objective; objective lens (the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed)

eyeglass; monocle (lens for correcting defective vision in one eye; held in place by facial muscles)

meniscus ((optics) a lens that is concave on one side and convex on the other)

intraocular lens (an artificial lens that is implanted into the eye of someone to replace a damaged natural lens or someone who has had a cataract removed)

Fresnel lens (lens composed of a number of small lenses arranged to make a lightweight lens of large diameter and short focal length)

field lens (the lens that is farthest from the eye in an optical device with more than one lens)

eyepiece; ocular (combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments)

concave lens; diverging lens (a lens such that a parallel beam of light passing through it is caused to diverge or spread out)

crown lens (a lens made of optical crown glass)

converging lens; convex lens (lens such that a beam of light passing through it is brought to a point or focus)

contact; contact lens (a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication)

condenser; optical condenser (lens used to concentrate light on an object)

compound lens (a lens system consisting of two or more lenses on the same axis)

camera lens; optical lens (a lens that focuses the image in a camera)

anastigmatic lens (a lens designed to correct astigmatism)

Holonyms ("lense" is a part of...):

optical instrument (an instrument designed to aid vision)