"zoom lens" meaning in English

See zoom lens in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /zu(ː)m lɛnz/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-zoom lens.wav Forms: zoom lenses [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} zoom lens (plural zoom lenses)
  1. (photography) A lens containing a mechanical assembly of inner lenses, allowing the focal length to be changed rapidly. Wikipedia link: zoom lens Categories (topical): Photography Derived forms: telezoom Related terms: normal lens, prime lens, telephoto lens, wide-angle lens Translations (lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed): zoomlinse [common-gender] (Danish), zoomobjektiv [neuter] (Danish), transfokallinse [common-gender] (Danish), fjarlinsa [feminine] (Faroese), telelinsa [feminine] (Faroese), zoom-objektiivi (Finnish), zoom [masculine] (French), objectif à focale variable [masculine] (French), Zoomobjektiv [neuter] (German), zoomobjektív (Hungarian), aðdráttarlinsa [feminine] (Icelandic), zoom [masculine] (Italian), trasfocatore [masculine] (Italian), ズームレンズ (zūmu-renzu) (Japanese), arotahi topa (Maori), zoomobjektiv [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), zoomlinse [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), zoom (Norwegian Bokmål), zoomobjektiv [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), zoomlinse [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), zoom (Norwegian Nynorsk), zoom [masculine] (Portuguese), zum [masculine] (Portuguese), zoomobjektiv [neuter] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "zoom lenses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "zoom lens (plural zoom lenses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Danish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Faroese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Icelandic translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Italian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Maori translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Photography",
          "orig": "en:Photography",
          "parents": [
            "Art",
            "Human activity",
            "Media",
            "Culture",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Communication",
            "Society",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "telezoom"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1981 October 26, The J. Geils Band (lyrics and music), “Freeze-Frame”, in Freeze-Frame:",
          "text": "Now I’m looking at a flashback Sunday.\nZoom lens feelings just won’t disappear.\nClose-up darkroom sweet-talk in my ear.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A lens containing a mechanical assembly of inner lenses, allowing the focal length to be changed rapidly."
      ],
      "id": "en-zoom_lens-en-noun-Fs~pjd4K",
      "links": [
        [
          "photography",
          "photography"
        ],
        [
          "lens",
          "lens"
        ],
        [
          "mechanical",
          "mechanical"
        ],
        [
          "assembly",
          "assembly"
        ],
        [
          "focal length",
          "focal length"
        ],
        [
          "changed",
          "changed"
        ],
        [
          "rapidly",
          "rapidly"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(photography) A lens containing a mechanical assembly of inner lenses, allowing the focal length to be changed rapidly."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "normal lens"
        },
        {
          "word": "prime lens"
        },
        {
          "word": "telephoto lens"
        },
        {
          "word": "wide-angle lens"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "arts",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "photography"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "zoomlinse"
        },
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "zoomobjektiv"
        },
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "transfokallinse"
        },
        {
          "code": "fo",
          "lang": "Faroese",
          "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "fjarlinsa"
        },
        {
          "code": "fo",
          "lang": "Faroese",
          "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "telelinsa"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
          "word": "zoom-objektiivi"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "zoom"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "objectif à focale variable"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Zoomobjektiv"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
          "word": "zoomobjektív"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "aðdráttarlinsa"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "zoom"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "trasfocatore"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "zūmu-renzu",
          "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
          "word": "ズームレンズ"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
          "word": "arotahi topa"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "zoomobjektiv"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "zoomlinse"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
          "word": "zoom"
        },
        {
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "zoomobjektiv"
        },
        {
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "zoomlinse"
        },
        {
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
          "word": "zoom"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "zoom"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "zum"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "zoomobjektiv"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "zoom lens"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/zu(ː)m lɛnz/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-zoom lens.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/de/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-zoom_lens.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-zoom_lens.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/de/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-zoom_lens.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-zoom_lens.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "zoom lens"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "telezoom"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "zoom lenses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "zoom lens (plural zoom lenses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "normal lens"
    },
    {
      "word": "prime lens"
    },
    {
      "word": "telephoto lens"
    },
    {
      "word": "wide-angle lens"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Danish translations",
        "Terms with Faroese translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Icelandic translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Maori translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "en:Photography"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1981 October 26, The J. Geils Band (lyrics and music), “Freeze-Frame”, in Freeze-Frame:",
          "text": "Now I’m looking at a flashback Sunday.\nZoom lens feelings just won’t disappear.\nClose-up darkroom sweet-talk in my ear.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A lens containing a mechanical assembly of inner lenses, allowing the focal length to be changed rapidly."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "photography",
          "photography"
        ],
        [
          "lens",
          "lens"
        ],
        [
          "mechanical",
          "mechanical"
        ],
        [
          "assembly",
          "assembly"
        ],
        [
          "focal length",
          "focal length"
        ],
        [
          "changed",
          "changed"
        ],
        [
          "rapidly",
          "rapidly"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(photography) A lens containing a mechanical assembly of inner lenses, allowing the focal length to be changed rapidly."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "arts",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "photography"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "zoom lens"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/zu(ː)m lɛnz/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-zoom lens.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/de/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-zoom_lens.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-zoom_lens.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/de/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-zoom_lens.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-zoom_lens.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "zoomlinse"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "zoomobjektiv"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "transfokallinse"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fjarlinsa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "telelinsa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
      "word": "zoom-objektiivi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zoom"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "objectif à focale variable"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Zoomobjektiv"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
      "word": "zoomobjektív"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "aðdráttarlinsa"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zoom"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "trasfocatore"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "zūmu-renzu",
      "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
      "word": "ズームレンズ"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
      "word": "arotahi topa"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "zoomobjektiv"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zoomlinse"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
      "word": "zoom"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "zoomobjektiv"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "zoomlinse"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
      "word": "zoom"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zoom"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zum"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "zoomobjektiv"
    }
  ],
  "word": "zoom lens"
}

Download raw JSONL data for zoom lens meaning in English (5.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.