Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Interesting. I looked on onelook.com, and got the following hits: From Variety magazine slang: lense -- to film a motion picture; "The project will lense in Rome and New York." From the Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms: lense Pyrite, round or oval in plan and lenticular in section, ranging up to 2 to 3 ft (0.6 to 0.9 m) in thickness and several hundred feet in the greatest lateral dimension, that is found in coalbeds. Sometimes called kidney sulfur. Mitchell And in the Mirriam-Webster online dictionary, it is listed as you posted - as a variant of lens. I will withdraw my objection (but not very graciously). Thinketh ye notte that itt looketh dumbe? Paul > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Brick [mailto:jimbrick@photoaccess.com] > Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 5:34 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: [Leica] Lens / Lense > > > Webster: > > Main Entry: 1lens > Variant(s): also lense /'lenz/ > > Function: noun > Etymology: New Latin lent-, lens, from Latin, lentil; from its shape > Date: 1693 > > 1 a : a piece of transparent material (as glass) that has two > opposite regular > surfaces either both curved or one curved and the other plane > and that is used > either singly or combined in an optical instrument for > forming an image by > focusing rays of light >