WordNet
n. a lens that focuses the image in a camera [syn: camera lens]
Usage examples of "optical lens".
When Robert and I left Hamburg in 1948, Bruno secured a residential apprenticeship with a firm of optical lens makers.
He crouched down until he was staring at the Halliburton, looking at a small optical lens near the handle.
No optical lens of whatever magnification could define detail inside the ring of oriels.
The stare of the machine's optical lens had prodded his instincts and the mutant could rely as much on them as on his parapsychological capabilities.
The optical lens systems of the robots stared at the rock swarms coming at them.
The steel side and bottom plating, rough and pitted through nearly a century of corrosion, was ground down to the smooth texture of an optical lens.
He turned around, fixing his rigid optical lens-eyes directly on Rhodan's face.
He squatted down beside Whistler and wiped a speck of dust from his optical lens.
She had taken a small crescent of isinglass, somewhat resembling a half optical lens, inserted it carefully under the lower lashes of one eye, and was carefully stroking them black with a small paint brush.