lense
English edit
Noun edit
lense (plural lenses)
- Misspelling of lens.
- 1911, Motography, volume 5, number 6, page 176:
- When a lense is described as of 4 inch focus, it means that such a lens is capable of bringing parallel rays to a point at a distance of 4 inches from the lens.
- 2015, Steve Rutherford, How to Photograph Landscapes like a Pro, →ISBN:
- Basically, a beam of light passing through a lens parallel to the optical axis converges to form a focused image on the film. Spherical aberration is the term for an optical fault caused by the spherical form of a lense that produces different […]
- (proscribed) Alternative spelling of lens
Usage notes edit
- Lense is accepted as an alternative spelling by Webster's Third New International Dictionary, but proscribed as a misspelling by Garner's Modern American Usage, Paul Brians’ Common Errors in English Usage, Robert Hartwell Fiske's Dictionary of Unendurable English and others.
Verb edit
lense (third-person singular simple present lenses, present participle lensing, simple past and past participle lensed)
- Misspelling of lens.
- (proscribed) Alternative spelling of lens