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How to pronounce “lens”
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Pronunciation guide for lens
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of lens with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
through the lens of Atlas obscura we are
- Definition summary
- (optics) An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.
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How to pronounce lens
Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
through the lens of Atlas obscura we are
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “lens”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (optics) An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.
- A device which focuses or defocuses electron beams.
- (geometry) A convex shape bounded by two circular arcs, joined at their endpoints, the corresponding concave shape being a lune.
- (biology) A genus of the legume family; its bean.
- (anatomy) The transparent crystalline structure in the eye.
- (earth science) A body of rock, ice, or water shaped like a convex lens.
- (programming) A construct used in statically-typed functional programming languages to access nested data structures.
- (by extension, figuratively) A way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something.
- [Verb]
- (transitive, cinematography) To film, shoot.
- (geology) To become thinner towards the edges.
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