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Maidment’s graduate student, Joe Bonsor, takes note on his clipboard then brings a piece of rock close to his face and squints at it through a hand lens.
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Laura Poppick, Discover Magazine, 30 Aug. 2019
Holding a hand lens to its bloom, Knapp showed me how this DYC was not a single blossom but a bouquet.
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Marion Renault, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2021
There were veins to count and stubble to inspect under hand lens.
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Marion Renault, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2021
Wearing a face mask and latex gloves, Clancy examined what was inside each packet, either with a hand lens or under a microscope.
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Chris Heath, The Atlantic, 15 July 2021
Culex pipiens —and take a look at it under a microscope or a powerful hand lens.
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Daisy Alioto, The New York Review of Books, 27 Mar. 2020
Occasionally, one of them would cradle it in one palm and bring a hand lens to it with the other, inspecting the carnivorous plant that was their bounty.
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Marion Renault, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2019
The city’s old concrete yields everything from tiny specimens demanding close inspection with a hand lens to a gigantic cliff fern almost 6 feet across.
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Irene Wanner, The Seattle Times, 19 May 2019
Using a combination of powerful microscopes, hand lenses, and 3D reconstructions, the researchers looked for tell-tale signs of deliberate cutting on the cow skull.
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Roni Dengler, Science | AAAS, 19 Apr. 2018
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Word History
First Known Use
1930, in the meaning defined above
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“Hand lens.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hand%20lens. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
hand lens
noun
: a magnifying glass to be held in the hand
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