A lens is an optical element that converges or diverges light.
Lens may also refer to:
Optics 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 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 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, Switzerland
Science 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 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 Lens (film), a 2016 Indian film made simultaneously in Malayalam and Tamil "Lens" (Alanis Morissette song), 2012 Lens (Frank Ocean song), 2017 "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 Low Energy Neutron Source, a particle accelerator in particle physics Lens (surname) Lens, a fictional alien device in E. E. Smith's Lensman series Perspective (cognitive)
See also Len (disambiguation) Lense (disambiguation)