lens vs camera lens

camera lens vs lens

lens and camera lens both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
lens	Yes	No	No	No
camera lens	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, camera lens is a hyponym of lens; that is, camera lens is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than lens:

lens: a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images
camera lens: a lens that focuses the image in a camera

Other hyponyms of lens include anastigmat, anastigmatic lens, optical lens, compound lens, condenser, optical condenser, contact, contact lens, converging lens, convex lens, crown lens, concave lens, diverging lens, eyepiece, ocular, field lens, Fresnel lens, intraocular lens, meniscus, eyeglass, monocle, object glass, object lens, objective, objective lens.

lens (noun)	camera lens (noun)
a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images	a lens that focuses the image in a camera
electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons
biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focus light on the retina
(metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood

Difference between lens and camera lens

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