lensmaker

English

Etymology

From lens +‎ maker.

Noun

lensmaker (plural lensmakers)

  1. A manufacturer of lenses.
    • 2018 December 8, Don Lincoln, “Giant collisions shake the cosmos”, in CNN‎[1]:
      In 1608, the German-Dutch lensmaker Hans Lippershey became the first person to apply for a patent for what we now call the telescope.
    • 2021 March 30, Anton Troianovski, “Hunting Ghost Particles Beneath the World’s Deepest Lake”, in The New York Times‎[2], archived from the original on 30 March 2021:
      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.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.