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Lens vs Lenticularis - What's the difference?

lens | lenticularis |

As nouns the difference between lens and lenticularis

is that lens is lentil while lenticularis is (meteorology) a cloud species which consists of rounded lens shaped of cloud, often forming near mountains associated with cirrocumulus, and altocumulus, and sometimes stratocumulus genera.

lens

English

(wikipedia lens)

Noun

(es)
  • An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field.}}
  • A device which focuses or defocuses electron beams.
  • (geometry) A convex shape bounded by two circular arcs, joined at their endpoints, the corresponding concave shape being a lune.
  • (biology) A genus of the legume family; its bean.
  • (anatomy) The transparent crystalline structure in the eye.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Fenella Saunders, magazine=(American Scientist)
  • , title= Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture , passage=The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.}}
  • (by extension, figuratively) A way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something.
  • * 2004 April 11, Ann Hulbert, "Are the Kids All Right?", in (The New York Times Magazine) , page 11:
  • If "the public looks at the condition of America's children largely through a negative lens ," worries Child Trends promote child well-being."

    Derived terms

    * contact lens * fisheye lens * lenticel * lenticular * lenticule * lentil * long lens * long-focus lens * macro lens * normal lens * telephoto lens * wide-angle lens * zoom lens

    Verb

  • To film, shoot.
  • (geology) To become thinner towards the edges.
  • lenticularis

    English

    Noun

    (lenticularis)
  • (meteorology) a cloud species which consists of rounded lens shaped of cloud, often forming near mountains. Associated with cirrocumulus, and altocumulus, and sometimes stratocumulus genera.
  • Synonyms

    * lenticular cloud Source AMS Glossary of Meteorology