Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A cap or cover fitting over the opening of the tube of a lens.

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Examples

  • Martinez retrieved his camera from the dusty dashboard, closed the flash, pressed the OFF button and replaced the lens-cap.

    Bangs Stephen Marlowe 2011

  • He is confident, however, that she won ' t impose her own version of NYU ' s lens-cap rule.

    His Hindsight Is 20-20 Erica Orden 2010

  • The supplied lens-cap which clips into the front of the lens barrel is annoyingly ineffective, simply falling off the camera whenever I stored it in a pocket or camera-bag.

    Photography Blog - News 2009

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