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  • verb Present participle of lens.
  • noun The focussing of light as if by a lens

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Examples

  • Twentieth Century Fox will distribute the actioner, set to begin lensing in March.

    2008 February | Fused Film 2008

  • Twentieth Century Fox will distribute the actioner, set to begin lensing in March.

    Kreuk, Duncan, and Klein Cast in Street Fighter Reboot! | Fused Film 2008

  • Compact and exuberant, U2 3D may be no more than a pint-sized concert film with a lustrous surface, but the lensing is so vibrant and the music so buoyant, even non-fans may find their eyes popping and their heads bobbing.

    GreenCine Daily: U2 @ Cannes. 2007

  • Gravitational lensing occurs when two galaxies happen to aligned with one another along our line of sight in the sky.

    Using Gravitational Lensing to Measure Age and Size of Universe | Universe Today 2010

  • In clusters and groups of galaxies, that influence shows up as weak gravitational lensing, which is difficult to nail down.

    Dark Matter in Distant Galaxy Groups Mapped for the First Time | Universe Today 2010

  • Not all enlarger arrangements will handle it the lensing is a pain.

    Making Light: Open thread 135 2010

  • Standouts in the strong tech package include Magnus Nordenhof Jonck's moody widescreen lensing, which is at times almost color-desaturated, and the chilling industrial-noise score.

    Variety.com 2010

  • Standouts in the strong tech package include Magnus Nordenhof Jonck's moody widescreen lensing, which is at times almost color-desaturated, and the chilling industrial-noise score.

    Variety.com 2010

  • Standouts in the strong tech package include Magnus Nordenhof Jonck's moody widescreen lensing, which is at times almost color-desaturated, and the chilling industrial-noise score.

    Variety.com 2010

  • The important thing here is that the study was conducted using only the Hubble telescope and the method of gravitational lensing, which is an effect of light passing through gravitational fields predicted by general relativity.

    digg.com: Stories / Popular 2010

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