lens turret

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noun Photography.

a rotating device on a camera for bringing any of several lenses in front of the shutter.

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Origin of lens turret

First recorded in 1950–55

Words nearby lens turret

lensectomy, lens hood, lensman, lens pit, lens stars, lens turret, lens vesicle, lent, lentamente, lentando, Lenten

How to use lens turret in a sentence

It reminded me a bit of an alternative take on The Wolf of Wall Street—through the Toni and Candace lens.
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And he said, I know you see this crisis through a very personal lens.
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The camera dollied backward along the length of the tower's staircase while simultaneously its lens zoomed forward.
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I see my personal experiences as a lens to look at something much bigger.
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They, like Klain, deserve to be seen through a historical lens before we rush to judgment.
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Go carefully over the film with an oil-immersion lens, using a mechanical stage if available.
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Still kneeling, he drew from his waistcoat pocket a powerful lens contained in a washleather bag.
Dope|Sax Rohmer
In fact, she was placed in a room—or rather an erection of three storeys or rooms—of stout lattice-work in a turret of the castle.
King Robert the Bruce|A. F. Murison
By far the greatest of these scientific inventions are those which depend upon the lens.
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It was a little longer than the usual three cell case, and there was a finely ground lens at the end.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various