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What is the adjective for lenses?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb lens which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

lensoidal
  1. (geometry) A lenticular shaped geometry. Roughly lens shaped.
  2. (geology) A small geologic unit or feature that pinches out laterally, and/or has a lenticular shape in profile view.
lentoid
  1. Having the form of a lens; lens-shaped.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Images of goats, birds, trees, and other plants decorate both sides of this lentoid flask.”
      “This Minoan seal is lentoid, which describes its shape when viewed in profile.”
      “Five hydrospire pores are also big, elliptical or thickly lentoid.”
lenslike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a lens.
lensed
  1. (chiefly in combination) Having a (specified form of) lens
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Views into the three numbered motel rooms through lensed eyeholes presented a similar mix of persistence and decay, presence and abandonment.”
      “A US and Netherlands-led team of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have identified 19 new examples of gravitationally lensed galaxies.”
      “The group is currently developing a hybrid lensed fiber bundle and apertured cantilever array.”
lensless
  1. Without a lens or lenses.
  2. Examples:
    1. “My experience with lensless imaging as my primary creative medium has shown me the pinhole camera's tremendous versatility and essential mystery.”
      “In order to avoid the distortions of reality that lenses produce, Strindberg often used a lensless pinhole camera of his own construction.”
      “Using a lensless x-ray microscope, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign imaged the interior of crystals in 3-D, ranging from 0.1 m to a few microns.”
lentiform
  1. Shaped like a lens.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The lentiform window provided a stunning view of the mountain range due to its unique lens-like shape.”
      “The lentiform nucleus is present only on the left side of the illustration.”
      “Components of the lentiform nucleus are seen lateral to the posterior limb of the internal capsule.”
lensing
  1. present participle of lens
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