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lens

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/lɛnz/ English

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noun

  1. An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.
  2. A device which focuses or defocuses electron beams.
  3. A convex shape bounded by two circular arcs, joined at their endpoints, the corresponding concave shape being a lune.
  4. A genus of the legume family; its bean.

verb

  1. To film, shoot.
  2. To become thinner towards the edges.

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