1. A transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images
   "The telescope's lens system allowed for clear views of distant galaxies";
   - lens system
    
2. (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood
   "the writer is the lens through which history can be seen"
    
3. Biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focus light on the retina
   "The crystalline lens changes shape to adjust focus for near and far vision";
   - crystalline lens, lens of the eye
    
4. Electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons
   "The electron microscope used an electron lens to magnify the specimen";
   - electron lens

1. Cause light to bend, as with a lens
   "the glass lensed the light"

1. Genus of small erect or climbing herbs with pinnate leaves and small inconspicuous white flowers and small flattened pods: lentils
   - genus Lens

Derived forms: lensed, lensing, lenses

Type of: channel, communication channel, electronic equipment, line, optical device, organ, rosid dicot genus

Part of: eye, oculus [rare], optic, optical instrument, Papilionoideae, subfamily Papilionoideae

Encyclopedia: Lens, Ontario