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noun
(in a camera or motion-picture projector) a lens assembly whose focal length can be continuously adjusted to provide various degrees of magnification without any loss of focus, thus combining the features of wide-angle, normal, and telephoto lenses.
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Origin of zoom lens
First recorded in 1935–40
Words nearby zoom lens
zoology, zoom, zoometry, zoom in, zoom in on, zoom lens, zoomorphic, zoomorphism, zoom out, zoon, zoonosis
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How to use zoom lens in a sentence
When Apple launched its 56-millimeter zoom lens on the iPhone 7 Plus, I was excited to have a longer lens on my phone.
I Tested the Apple iPhone 13 Pro. The Camera Quality Is Ridiculous.|jeremyr|September 21, 2021|Outside OnlineThe S21 camera array includes a wide-angle main camera, a super-wide camera, and a telephoto zoom lens, which is what you’d expect from a three-camera array.
Watch Samsung announce its new Galaxy S21 smartphones and Galaxy Buds Pro|Stan Horaczek|January 14, 2021|Popular-ScienceIf you’ve grown accustomed to something like a zoom lens on your smartphones, you won’t find that here.
My Only Beef With the iPhone 12 Mini? I Wish It Was Even Smaller|Patrick Lucas Austin|November 24, 2020|TimeI had a Nikon DCS-620, which was one of their early models—a hybrid Kodak-Nikon camera—and I was using a 70-200mm zoom lens.
British Dictionary definitions for zoom lens
zoom lens
noun
a lens system that allows the focal length of a camera lens to be varied continuously without altering the sharpness of the imageSee also telephoto lens
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