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Noun lens has 5 senses
- lens, lense, lens system - a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images
--1 is a kind of optical device
--1 is a part of optical instrument
--1 has particulars:
- Lens, genus Lens - genus of small erect or climbing herbs with pinnate leaves and small inconspicuous white flowers and small flattened pods: lentils
--2 is a kind of rosid dicot genus
--2 is a member of Papilionoideae, subfamily Papilionoideae
- lens - (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood; "the writer is the lens through which history can be seen"
--3 is a kind of channel, communication channel, line
- lens, crystalline lens - biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; it focuses light waves on the retina
--4 is a kind of organ
--4 is a part of eye, oculus, optic
--4 has parts: lens capsule
- lens, electron lens - electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons
--5 is a kind of electronic equipment
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