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Lent noun

  /lɛnt/
  • (Christianity) A period of the ecclesiastical year preceding Easter, traditionally involving temporary abstention from certain foods and pleasures.
 paasto, paastonaika, suuri paasto

lens noun

  /lɛnz/
  • An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.
 linssi, mykiö
  • (geometry) A convex shape bounded by two circular arcs, joined at their endpoints, the corresponding concave shape being a lune.
  • (biology) A genus of the legume family; its bean.
 linssi
  • (anatomy) The transparent crystalline structure in the eye.
 mykiö, linssi
  • A device which focuses or defocuses electron beams.
 poikkeutuskela, linssi
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