contact lens vs lens

contact lens

noun
  • A thin lens, made of flexible or rigid plastic, that is placed directly on to the eye to correct vision, used as an alternative to spectacles, or, if coloured, to change one's eye color cosmetically. 

lens

noun
  • The transparent crystalline structure in the eye. 

  • A genus of the legume family; its bean. 

  • A construct used in statically-typed functional programming languages to access nested data structures. 

  • An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it. 

  • A convex shape bounded by two circular arcs, joined at their endpoints, the corresponding concave shape being a lune. 

  • A device which focuses or defocuses electron beams. 

  • A way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something. 

  • A body of rock, ice, or water shaped like a convex lens. 

verb
  • To film, shoot. 

  • To become thinner towards the edges. 

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