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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A device which focuses or defocuses electron beams.
  • anatomy The transparent crystalline structure in the eye.
  • An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.
  • biology A genus of the legume family; its bean.
  • figuratively A way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something.
  • geometry A convex shape bounded by two circular arcs, joined at their endpoints, the corresponding concave shape being a lune.

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Verb:

  • geology To become thinner towards the edges.
  • transitive To film, shoot.

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