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General dictionaries General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. lens: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  2. lens: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
  3. lens: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. Lens, lens, lens: Wordnik [home, info]
  5. lens: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  6. Lens: Wiktionary [home, info]
  7. lens: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  8. lens: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  9. lens: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  10. lens: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  11. lens: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  12. Lens, lens: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  13. lens: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  14. Lens (France), Lens (Pas-de-Calais), Lens (VS), Lens (Valais), Lens (anatomy), Lens (city), Lens (disambiguation), Lens (genus), Lens (geology), Lens (geometry), Lens (optics), Lens (vision), Lens: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  15. Lens: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  16. lens: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  17. lens: Rhymezone [home, info]
  18. lens, lens (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  19. lens: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  20. lens: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms [home, info]
  21. lens: All About Homonyms [home, info]
  22. Lens: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
  23. Lens: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
  24. lens: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  25. lens: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  26. lens: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  27. Lens, lens: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  28. lens: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  29. lens: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. lens: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology [home, info]
  2. Lens: English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) [home, info]
  3. LENS: Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms [home, info]
  4. Lens: Movie Terminology Glossary [home, info]
  5. lens-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lens: Webopedia [home, info]
  2. Lens (anatomy), Lens (disambiguation), Lens (optics), lens: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. lens: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
  2. Lens: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary [home, info]
  3. Lens: Glossary of Lasik Laser Eye Surgery [home, info]
  4. Lens(es): Merck Manuals [home, info]
  5. lens: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  6. LENS: Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine [home, info]
  7. Lens: Gray's Anatomy (1918) [home, info]
  8. Lens: KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words [home, info]
  9. Lens: LASIK Eye Surgery Glossary [home, info]
  10. lens: Dictionary of Cancer Terms [home, info]
  11. Lens (anatomy), Lens (disambiguation), Lens (optics), lens: Medical dictionary [home, info]
  12. Lens: Drug Medical Dictionary [home, info]
  13. lens: Hyperdictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lens: Brilliant Dream Dictionary [home, info]
  2. LENS: Acronym Finder [home, info]
  3. LENS: AbbreviationZ [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lens: Misunderstood Physics Terms [home, info]
  2. Lens: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics [home, info]
  3. Lens: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics [home, info]
  4. Lens: Physic and Astronomy Glossary [home, info]

Slang dictionaries Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lens: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lens: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
  2. Lens: Explosives [home, info]
  3. Lens: Nikonians Photo Glossary [home, info]
  4. Lens: Glossary of Film/Video Terms [home, info]
  5. Lens: PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography [home, info]
  6. LENS: Rapid Prototyping Glossary [home, info]
  7. lens: Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms [home, info]

Quick definitions (lens)

noun:  a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images
noun:  electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons
noun:  biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; it focuses light waves on the retina
noun:  (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood ("The writer is the lens through which history can be seen")
noun:  genus of small erect or climbing herbs with pinnate leaves and small inconspicuous white flowers and small flattened pods: lentils

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