"pancake lens" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: pancake lenses [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} pancake lens (plural pancake lenses)
  1. (photography, optics, informal) A type of flat lens design. Tags: informal Categories (topical): Optics, Photography

Inflected forms

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