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noun

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a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images

genus of small erect or climbing herbs with pinnate leaves and small inconspicuous white flowers and small flattened pods: lentils

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genus Lens

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(metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood

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biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye

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electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons

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electron lens

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electronic equipment

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Follow-up observations with NICMOS, the near-infrared camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, revealed a full ring as well as the lensing galaxy--a system known as B1938+666.

Gravity's ring: Hubble bags another lens

The team subtracted the presumed lensing galaxy from the Keck image and found a faint mirror image of the arc on the opposite side of the galaxy.

Fooled by gravity

Searching for lensing by looking for closely spaced, doubled images of any of these quasars, they found evidence that light from only one of the 12 had been bent by a foreground galaxy.

Quasar hunt bags unusual quarry

Researchers have used entire galaxies as gravitational lenses -- both to examine the properties of quasars billins of light-years beyond our galaxy and to study the lensing galaxies.

Hunting planets with a gravitational lens

Gravitational lensing may explain, for example, the puzzling, quasar-like properties of so-called BL Lacertae objects sometimes found embedded in nearby galaxies.

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