lens
A clear piece of glass or plastic that changes how you see things.
A curved piece of glass or plastic that bends light to form a clear image or to make things look bigger or smaller.
The glass part of a camera that takes the picture.
The part of a camera that focuses light to form an image, often a removable unit with a particular focal length or zoom range.
A small lens you put on your eye instead of glasses.
A thin, curved lens worn directly on the surface of the eye to correct vision or change eye color.
The clear part inside your eye that helps you focus.
The transparent, flexible structure inside the eye that changes shape to focus light on the retina.
A viewpoint or way to understand something.
A particular way of thinking about, understanding, or judging something; a perspective or framework.
- Base: lens
- Plural: lenses
a lens on [something]
1a view into something
something that shows you what [something] is like
- The documentary is a lens on life in a small town.
- Her essays offer a lens on modern workplace culture.
- The survey provides a useful lens on public opinion.
through the lens of [something]
1interpreting via a perspective
using [something] as a way to understand it
- He views every decision through the lens of cost.
- The film can be read through the lens of colonial history.
- She explains the conflict through the lens of her own experience.
- We studied it through the lens of history.