"lens flare" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: lens flares [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} lens flare (countable and uncountable, plural lens flares)
  1. A stray patch of brightness in a photographic image resulting from aberrant refractions or reflections within the lens due to an exceptionally bright light source, sometimes one just outside the image proper. Wikipedia link: lens flare Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Optics, Photography Translations (brightness in an image): 鏡頭光暈 (Chinese Mandarin), 镜头光晕 (jìngtóu guāngyūn) (Chinese Mandarin), lensgloed [masculine] (Dutch), linssiheijastus (Finnish), becsillanás (Hungarian), flara [feminine] (Polish), linsöverstrålning [common-gender] (Swedish)

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