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OPTICAL LENS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A lens that focuses the image in a camera
Synonyms:
camera lens; optical lens
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("optical lens" is a kind of...):
lens; lens system; lense (a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "optical lens"):
closeup lens (a photographic lens with a short focal length used to take pictures at short ranges)
portrait lens (a compound camera lens with a relatively high aperture)
telephoto lens; zoom lens (a camera lens that magnifies the image)
fisheye lens; wide-angle lens (a camera lens having a wider than normal angle of view (and usually a short focal length); produces an image that is foreshortened in the center and increasingly distorted in the periphery)
Holonyms ("optical lens" is a part of...):
camera; photographic camera (equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other))
camera; television camera; tv camera (television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam)
