鏡 — meaning in English
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English meaning
- lens noun A curved piece of glass or plastic that bends light to focus or spread it out, used in glasses, cameras, and telescopes.
- lentil noun A small, disc-shaped edible seed from a legume plant, commonly dried and used in soups and stews.
- riser noun Someone who gets out of bed, especially described by how early or late.
Senses
鏡 is used for these senses in English:
- fingerboard (music, lutherie) A flat or roughly flat strip on the neck of a stringed instrument, against which the strings are pressed to shorten the vibrating length and produce notes of higher pitches.
- lens A device which focuses or defocuses electron beams.
- lentil Any of several plants of the genus Lens, especially Lens culinaris, from southwest Asia, that have edible, lens-shaped seeds within flattened pods.
- riser (carpentry) A vertical part of a step on a staircase.
lens — full definition
- noun A curved piece of glass or plastic that bends light to focus or spread it out, used in glasses, cameras, and telescopes.
- noun The clear part inside the eye that focuses light onto the retina.
- noun A particular way of looking at or interpreting something.