Usually means: Optical devices that focus light.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word lenses:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. lenses: Merriam-Webster
  2. lenses: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Lenses, lenses: Vocabulary.com
  4. Lenses, lenses: Wordnik
  5. lenses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. lenses: Wiktionary
  7. lenses: Dictionary.com
  8. lenses: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Lenses: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Lenses: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Lenses: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. lenses: FreeDictionary.org
  13. lenses: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lenses: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. lenses: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. lenses: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Lens)

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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