eye lens

American  

noun

Optics.

1. the lens of an eyepiece closest to the eye.

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Etymology

Origin of eye lens

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

But they have been known to blind some - in the last fortnight a cyclist made the news after revealing a serial dive-bomber had left him needing major surgery and a prosthetic eye lens.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2023

But that fish- eye lens just stared back at her, impassive, unblinking.

From The Verge • Jun. 11, 2019

Instead, the team decided to measure levels of radioactive carbon-14 in fibres in the centre of the shark’s eye lens.

From Nature • Aug. 10, 2016

The fluid inside the eye is normally high in vitamin C, which helps prevent oxidation that leads to clouding of the eye lens.

From US News • Mar. 24, 2016

I also sometimes used a slip of slightly tinted glass in front of the eye lens; this enabled me to bring the planet entirely under subjection.

From The Life of Roger Langdon Told by himself. With additions by his daughter Ellen. [With a preface by H. Clifton Lambert.] by Lambert, Henry Clifton