Etymology

superlens

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Today it means: Any of several lenses, often built using material with negative refractive index, that can resolve images having dimensions less than that of the wavelength of 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-Italic*super
  4. Latinsuper
  5. Latinsuper-
  6. Englishsuper-
  7. Latinlēns
  8. Arabicعَدَسَة (ʕadasa)
  9. Medieval Latinlēns
  10. Englishlens
  11. English todaysuperlens

From super- + lens.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.