Usually means: Optical device focusing or dispersing light.
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We found 67 dictionaries that define the word lens:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. lens: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Lens, lens: Merriam-Webster
  3. lens: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lens: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lens: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Lens, lens: Vocabulary.com
  7. Len's, Lens, lens: Wordnik
  8. lens: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lens: Wiktionary
  10. lens: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lens: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lens: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. lens: Dictionary.com
  14. lens: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. lens: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Lens (anatomy), Lens (disambiguation), Lens (film), Lens (geology), Lens (geometry), Lens (hydrology), Lens (movie), Lens (optics), Lens (plant), Lens (song), Lens (vision), Lens, The Lens: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Lens: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. lens: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. lens: Rhymezone
  20. lens, lens (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. lens: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. lens: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Lens: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. lens: FreeDictionary.org
  25. lens: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. lens: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. lens: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. lens: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  4. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)
  5. lens-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. Lens (anatomy), Lens (disambiguation), Lens (optics), lens: Encyclopedia

Medicine (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. lens: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Lens: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Lens: Glossary of Lasik Laser Eye Surgery
  5. Lens(es): Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  8. Lens: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  9. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  10. Lens: LASIK Eye Surgery Glossary
  11. lens: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  12. Lens (anatomy), Lens (disambiguation), Lens (optics), lens: Medical dictionary
  13. Lens: Drug Medical Dictionary
  14. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. LENS: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Misunderstood Physics Terms (No longer online)
  2. Lens: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Lens: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  4. Lens: Physic and Astronomy Glossary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. lens: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Lens: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. The Lens, lens: Urban Dictionary

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Explosives (No longer online)
  3. Lens: Nikonians Photo Glossary
  4. Glossary of Film/Video Terms (No longer online)
  5. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  6. Rapid Prototyping Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See lensed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (optics) An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.
noun:  A device which focuses or defocuses electron beams.
noun:  (geometry) A convex shape bounded by two circular arcs, joined at their endpoints, the corresponding concave shape being a lune.
noun:  (biology) A genus of the legume family; its bean.
noun:  (anatomy) The transparent crystalline structure in the eye.
noun:  (earth science) A body of rock, ice, or water shaped like a convex lens.
noun:  (programming) A construct used in statically-typed functional programming languages to access nested data structures.
noun:  (by extension, figuratively) A way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something.
verb:  (transitive, cinematography) To film, shoot.
verb:  (geology) To become thinner towards the edges.
noun:  A municipality in Hainaut, Belgium.
noun:  A commune in Pas-de-Calais department, Hauts-de-France, France.
noun:  A municipality in Valais canton, Switzerland.

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