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Main Entry:	lens [lenz] Show IPA/lɛnz/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	glass for vision
Synonyms:	bifocal, contact, glass, meniscus, monocle, optic, spectacles, trifocal

Main Entry:	magnifying glass
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	hand-held lens
Synonyms:	eyeglass, hand glass, hand lens, lens, loupe, simple microscope

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Even something as simple as wiping a lens can be done the wrong way, with disastrous results.

From that moment on, the junior scholar saw the senior professor through a dark-tinted lens.

By increasing the applied electric field, the normally convex surface of the lens can be made completely flat or even concave.

Even something as simple as wiping a lens can be done the wrong way, with disastrous results.

From that moment on, the junior scholar saw the senior professor through a dark-tinted lens.

By increasing the applied electric field, the normally convex surface of the lens can be made completely flat or even concave.

It is an effect produced by the reflection of light internally among elements of an optical lens.

The observable universe is one big, giant magnifying lens.

Every roller coaster, every camera and every contact lens.

They then surround the lens and stop stray light from entering bouncing around the lens as you shoot.

He interpreted every event through the lens of freedom.

Viewing online learning through the lens of perspective transformation.

London, who was musing on this idea, realised that such a material would make a perfect lens.

If you don't have a tripod and want to shoot with a long lens and slow shutter speed, use your camera bag to cradle the camera.

In order for the tooth to bind to the lens sufficiently, the implant spent a couple months in the patient's body.

It is a tiny thing, a flake of bright metal about the size of a contact lens.

Taking a lens cap off to snap a photo and then replacing it afterwards is such a chore.

Private universities are public trusts and should be examined under a different lens from that of private businesses.

The only way to treat a cataract that has become completely opaque is to remove the faulty lens.

Turn off autofocus and try to focus by moving your body or arms rather than using the focusing mechanism on your lens.

Very artsy shot and great use of your wide-angle lens.

Photojojo's new add-on cellphone camera lens will double, yes double the focal length of the lens you have on there already.

Reporting of the problem is distorted by editorial judgments made through the lens of hatred.

Predatory behaviour also looks less innocent through the lens of sophisticated game theory.

These models, however, were lens veterans who knew how best to show off their profitable bone structure.

Take the iSight, slide a roll of insulating tape around the barrel and then slide the lens on top.

The wide-aperture lens means there is no need for a clunky auto-focus mechanism.

Paleochick demonstrates how you can take decent quality macro images of fossils using a cell phone and a hand lens.

However, when this sort of expensive electronics is involved, losing a contact lens might be more than a minor inconvenience.

It has a wide-aperture lens to capture as much light as possible, and the technology requires no clunky auto-focus mechanism.

In the final shot, the building seems to loom over the viewer, a result of the wide-angle lens used.

And if you're considering buying one, then as of today there's one more lens to choose from.

It also lets you focus so close the lens is almost touching the subject, and you'll get a lot of lens-flare.

Although the black box with the lousy lens is dismissed by some as a.

Looking closely in the mirror you could see a raised ring around the edge of where the lens was.

But lens replacement is not yet perfected, largely because replacement lenses themselves still have room for improvement.

No other lens is as useful when you want to get to the heart of wildflowers, tiny mushrooms, and insects.

Detectors in the lens capture the fluorescence, and software constructs the image.

Guskiewicz says looking at concussions through the lens of athletics has proved to be an invaluable scientific opportunity.

The reason is that both camera and lens have to be small, to fit with all the other gubbins on a phone.

See what it takes to win a photo contest, from the lens of the photographers to the scrutinizing eyes of the judges.

Rather than scholarly desiderata or close readings, it had bigger fish to fry, taking the wide-angle lens of concepts like.

The acid gases were attacking the camera lens and coating the camera.

They seem to vary with each lens applied to examine them.

The main issue with alternatives to regular contact lens solutions is sterility.

They do that with a conventional camera by opening up the aperture of the lens and selecting a faster shutter speed.

The researchers found that each of the bones is a single calcite crystal and each window is in the shape of a double lens.

It is not easy removing the materialistic lens when considering any new viewpoint.

The lens is the first ever to help take visual light images of.

Protective countermeasures are under development, including lens shutters and filters that block certain laser frequencies.

These eyes use a single lens to focus images onto a light detector called a retina.

To earthbound observers, this configuration makes the distant star appear brighter, as if a lens was placed in front of it.

That's all the difference in being able to use a wider-angle lens and still fill the frame with information and get texture.

The lens is actually two lenses in a single, compact housing.

Your surgeon should provide a contact lens prior to surgery to see if you can adjust to the monovision.

Under the lens of the microscope the seaweed becomes green worms.

They there the size of a pen and had a charged wire, a needle and a lens.

In the second half of the clip you see the springs on which the lens element rests, keeping it in its own part of the lens barrel.

But there may be times when the company's recommendations have to be viewed through the lens of its self-interest.

It has been a remarkably prescient and useful lens with which to view our current financial crisis.

It is a specific-and gripping-example of how the lens of genetics will eventually inform our understanding of all peoples.

Nikon's new telephoto zoom lens is huge, and has a price-tag to match.

Yet no lens is provided through which to interpret this genealogical bombshell.

The lens still focuses sharply, but gives the effect of shooting through a pair of white pantyhose.

With the addition of a lens and fast memory chips, the phones become usable as digital cameras and camcorders too.

The swiveling lens offers flexibility, but the slow and unintuitive.

Had to relearn academic writing in a different style and how to look through a different lens entirely.

Both of these involve moving the lens in relation to the film plane.

It looks at one family through the lens of history or at history through the continuing lives of one family.

But because they see the child through the grandparent lens.

Critical studies gives us a lens and a language to discuss these intersections.

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