compound lens vs lense

compound lens and lense both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
compound lens	Yes	No	No	No
lense	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, lense is a hypernym of compound lens; that is, lense is a word with a broader meaning than compound lens:

compound lens: a lens system consisting of two or more lenses on the same axis
lense: a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images

Other hypernyms of compound lens include lens, lens system.

compound lens (noun)	lense (noun)
a lens system consisting of two or more lenses on the same axis	a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images