ZOOM LENS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does zoom lens mean? 

• ZOOM LENS (noun)
  The noun ZOOM LENS has 1 sense:

1. a camera lens that magnifies the image

  Familiarity information: ZOOM LENS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ZOOM LENS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A camera lens that magnifies the image

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

telephoto lens; zoom lens

Hypernyms ("zoom lens" is a kind of...):

camera lens; optical lens (a lens that focuses the image in a camera)

 Context examples 

Astronomers use this "zoom lens" effect to go hunting for amplified images of distant galaxies that otherwise would not be visible with today's telescopes.

(NASA's Great Observatories Team Up to Find Magnified and Stretched Image of Distant Galaxy, NASA)

However, through the phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, a massive, foreground cluster of galaxies acts as a natural zoom lens in space by magnifying and stretching images of far more distant background galaxies.

(Massive Dead Disk Galaxy Challenges Theories of Galaxy Evolution, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)