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LENSING
Verb
lensing
present participle of lens
Noun
lensing (countable and uncountable, plural lensings)
The focussing of light as if by a lens.
(slang) The process of shooting a film.
Anagrams
• ginnels
Proper noun
Lensing (plural Lensings)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Lensing is the 31587th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 732 individuals. Lensing is most common among White (98.63%) individuals.
Anagrams
• ginnels
Source: Wiktionary
LENS
Lens, n.; pl. Lenses (-êz). Etym: [L. lens a lentil. So named from the resemblance in shape of a double convex lens to the seed of a lentil. Cf. Lentil.] (Opt.)
Definition: A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and the other plane, and commonly used, either singly or combined, in optical instruments, for changing the direction of rays of light, and thus magnifying objects, or otherwise modifying vision. In practice, the curved surfaces are usually spherical, though rarely cylindrical, or of some other figure. Lenses
Note: Of spherical lenses, there are six varieties, as shown in section in the figures herewith given: viz., a plano-concave; b double-concave; c plano-convex; d double-convex; converging concavo- convex, or converging meniscus; f diverging concavo-convex, or diverging meniscus. Crossed lens (Opt.), a double-convex lens with one radius equal to six times the other.
– Crystalline lens. (Anat.) See Eye.
– Fresnel lens (Opt.), a compound lens formed by placing around a central convex lens rings of glass so curved as to have the same focus; used, especially in lighthouses, for concentrating light in a particular direction; -- so called from the inventor.
– Multiplying lens or glass (Opt.), a lens one side of which is plane and the other convex, but made up of a number of plane faces inclined to one another, each of which presents a separate image of the object viewed through it, so that the object is, as it were, multiplied.
– Polyzonal lens. See Polyzonal.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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