Lens (disambiguation)

A lens is an optical element which converges or diverges light.

Lens may also refer to:

Optics

 * Lens (anatomy), a part of the eye
 * Corrective lens for correction of human vision
 * Contact lens, placed on the cornea of the eye
 * Camera lens, a lens designed for use on a camera

Other radiation focus and forces

 * Gravitational lens, a massive astronomical object which causes visual distortions
 * Electrostatic lens, a device used to focus or collimate electron beams
 * Explosive lens, a shaped explosive charge with focused blast

Places

 * Lens, Pas-de-Calais, a city in Northern France
 * Arrondissement of Lens, an arrondissement in the Pas-de-Calais département of France
 * RC Lens, a football (soccer) club from Lens, France
 * Lens, Belgium
 * Lens, Valais, Switzerland

Science

 * Lens (plant), the genus of the lentil plant
 * Lens (geometry), a geometric shape formed from two arcs
 * Lens (geology), a body of ore or rock that is thick in the middle and thin at the edges
 * Lens (hydrology), a layer of fresh water derived from rainfall, overlying saline groundwater
 * Kamera lens (biology), a unicellular, flagellate organism and the only species of the genus Kamera.
 * Ice lens

Computing

 * Filter (social media), sometimes called a lens
 * Google Lens, an augmented reality feature for smartphones
 * Microsoft Lens, a document scanning feature part of Microsoft Office
 * Bidirectional transformation in computer science

Other uses

 * Lens (film), a 2016 Indian film made simultaneously in Malayalam and Tamil
 * "Lens" (song), by Alanis Morissette, 2012
 * "Lens" (The Leftovers), a 2015 television episode
 * The Lens, an online patent search facility and knowledge resource
 * The Lens (band), a predecessor of IQ, a British neo-progressive rock group
 * The Lens (website), in-depth news and investigations for New Orleans, USA
 * European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS)
 * Laser engineered net shaping, a rapid prototyping technology capable of building fully dense metal parts
 * Lens (surname)
 * Lens, a fictional alien device in E. E. Smith's Lensman series
 * Perspective (cognitive)