eyeglasses
English
Noun
eyeglasses pl (plural only)
- (US) Spectacles, glasses.
- 2013 September-October, Petroski, Henry, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist, United States: Sigma Xi, ISSN 0003-0996, OCLC 645082957:
- 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, […].
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eyeglasses
- plural of eyeglass.
Translations
spectacles — see spectacles
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