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Eyeglasses

//ˈaɪ.ɡlæsɪz// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Spectacles, glasses. US, plural, plural-only

    "Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]."

  2. 2
    Plural of eyeglass. form-of, plural
  3. 3
    (plural) optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision wordnet

Etymology

From eye + glasses.

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