a piece of glass (or substance like glass) with one or both sides curved, used in spectacles, cameras, telescopes, microscopes and other optical instruments
glass for vision
Cases of word usage
1) a person suffering from faulty vision caused by the lens of the eye having the wrong shape (astigmatic)
2) a meeting-point of rays of light, heat etc; a point, distance, where the sharpest outline is given (to the eye, through a telescope, through a lens on a camera etc) (focus)
3) to make (a person or thing) appear larger (as with a lens or microscope); to exaggerate (something) (magnify)
4) a framed lens for one eye (monocle)
5) a movable cover for a window, used to keep out light; the device that opens to admit light through the lens of a camera (shutter)