Lens (disambiguation)

A lens can be:

• Lens (optics), an optical element. See also Category:Lenses, and:
  • Lens (anatomy), a part of the eye
  • Corrective lens for vision correction
  • Photographic lens, a special type of lens used in a camera. See also Category:Photographic lenses
  • Sunglasses' lenses, which are light-attenuating elements
  • Hence:
    • Gravitational lens, an astronomical effect
    • Electrostatic lens, a device used to focus or collimate electron beams
    • a metaphor for a point of view
    • a science-fictional alien device in E. E. Smith's Lensman series, which gives its bearer telepathic and other abilities
• Lens (genus), 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

There are also places called Lens:

• Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France
  • RC Lens, its football (soccer) club
• Lens, Belgium
• Lens, Valais, Switzerland

People named Lens include:

• Louis Lens, Flemish rose breeder

LENS can be an acronym for:

• Laser Engineered Net Shaping, a rapid prototyping technology capable of building fully-dense metal parts