Etymology

hyperlens

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Today it means: A nanostructured metamaterial that produces magnified images of objects smaller than the wavelength of the light used Full definition →

English lens ← Medieval Latin lēns ← Arabic عَدَسَة (ʕadasa)
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Hellenic*hupér
  4. Ancient Greekῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér)
  5. Ancient Greekῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)
  6. Englishhyper-
  7. Latinlēns
  8. Arabicعَدَسَة (ʕadasa)
  9. Medieval Latinlēns
  10. Englishlens
  11. English todayhyperlens

From hyper- + lens.

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