Lens (disambiguation)
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A lens is an optical element which converges or diverges light.
Lens may also refer to:
Optics
[edit]- Lens (anatomy), a part of the eye
- Corrective lens for correction of human vision
- Contact lens, placed on the cornea of the eye
- Camera lens, a lens designed for use on a camera
Other radiation focus and forces
[edit]- Gravitational lens, a massive astronomical object which causes visual distortions
- Electrostatic lens, a device used to focus or collimate electron beams
- Explosive lens, a shaped explosive charge with focused blast
Places
[edit]- Lens, Pas-de-Calais, a city in Northern France
- Arrondissement of Lens, an arrondissement in the Pas-de-Calais département of France
- RC Lens, a football (soccer) club from Lens, France
- Lens, Belgium
- Lens, Valais, Switzerland
Science
[edit]- Lens (plant), the genus of the lentil plant
- Lens (geometry), a geometric shape formed from two arcs
- Lens (geology), a body of ore or rock that is thick in the middle and thin at the edges
- Lens (hydrology), a layer of fresh water derived from rainfall, overlying saline groundwater
- Kamera lens (biology), a unicellular, flagellate organism and the only species of the genus Kamera.
- Ice lens
Computing
[edit]- Filter (social media), sometimes called a lens
- Google Lens, an augmented reality feature for smartphones
- Microsoft Lens, a document scanning feature part of Microsoft Office
- Bidirectional transformation in computer science
Other uses
[edit]- Lens (film), a 2016 Indian film made simultaneously in Malayalam and Tamil
- "Lens" (song), by Alanis Morissette, 2012
- "Lens" (The Leftovers), a 2015 television episode
- The Lens, an online patent search facility and knowledge resource
- The Lens (band), a predecessor of IQ, a British neo-progressive rock group
- The Lens (website), in-depth news and investigations for New Orleans, USA
- European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS)
- Laser engineered net shaping, a rapid prototyping technology capable of building fully dense metal parts
- Lens (surname)
- Lens, a fictional alien device in E. E. Smith's Lensman series
- Perspective (cognitive)