zoom lens

1. 1.

   a camera lens that magnifies the image

   Synonymstelephoto lens

   Broadercamera lens

Questions about zoom lens

What does zoom lens mean?

zoom lens means "a camera lens that magnifies the image".

What is another word for zoom lens?

Close synonyms include telephoto lens. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is zoom lens a common word?

zoom lens is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.