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Lensmaker

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Lensmaker is a noun meaning A manufacturer of lenses.

Meaning

A manufacturer of lenses.

Example Sentences

In 1608, the German-Dutch lensmaker Hans Lippershey became the first person to apply for a patent for what we now call the telescope.
The field’s practitioners believe that as they learn to read the universe using neutrinos, they could make new, unexpected discoveries — much as the lensmakers who first developed the telescope could not have imagined that Galileo would later use it to discover the moons of Jupiter.

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Related dictionary entries include lensman, lampmaker, lenswoman, lenser, optician, lockmaker.

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