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Subject: [Leica] Lens / Lense
From: Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:33:50 -0800
 
Webster:

Main Entry: 1lens
Variant(s): also lense /'lenz/

Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin lent-, lens, from Latin, lentil; from its shape
Date: 1693

1 a : a piece of transparent material (as glass) that has two opposite regular
surfaces either both curved or one curved and the other plane and that is used
either singly or combined in an optical instrument for forming an image by
focusing rays of light