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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a lens.

Etymologies

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lens +‎ -like

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Examples

  • No laser need apply; within the seeker module, behind the lenslike nose aperture, was not a laser seeker but a highly sensitive miniature FM receiver that was prelocked on to a unique frequency and would then only recognize an encoded tone.

    Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

  • No laser need apply; within the seeker module, behind the lenslike nose aperture, was not a laser seeker but a highly sensitive miniature FM receiver that was prelocked on to a unique frequency and would then only recognize an encoded tone.

    Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

  • "We have camcorders," the stallion explained, showing a creature with a lenslike snoot.

    Isle of View Anthony, Piers 1990

  • They had much to say of pic - tures “painted” on the eye; they spoke of the lenslike function of the “crystalline humour.”

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON 1968

  • Each stratum, however, is lenticular, or lenslike, in form, having an area where it is thickest, and thinning out thence to its edges, where it is overlapped by strata similar in shape.

    The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900

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