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Eyewear vs Optic - What's the difference?

eyewear | optic |

As nouns the difference between eyewear and optic

is that eyewear is a vision aid or similar device worn over the eyes, such as eyeglasses, contact lenses, or protective goggles while optic is an eye.

As an adjective optic is

of, or relating to the eye or to vision.

eyewear

English

Noun

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  • A vision aid or similar device worn over the eyes, such as eyeglasses, contact lenses, or protective goggles.
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  • * 1974 Oct. 14, " Wise Owl Club inducts two," St. Petersburg Times / Manatee Times , p. 3 (retrieved 1 Sep 2010):
    • Use of safety eyewear by Jones saved his sight when he was holding a chisel, another employe lifted up a hammer to hit the chisel and accidentally struck Jones in the nose and safety glasses.
  • * 1988 July 4, Anastasia Toufexis et al.'', " Health & Fitness: Do Your Shades Do the Job?," ''Time :
    • ANSI divides sunglasses into three categories: fashion spectacles that shield eyes from only 70% of UV-B and less than 60% of UV-A; everyday eyewear that screens out 95% of UV-B and between 60% and 92% of UV-A; and special-purpose glasses that absorb almost 99% of ultraviolet rays.

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    optic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * optick (obsolete) * optique (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of, or relating to the eye or to vision.
  • * Milton
    • The moon, whose orb / Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views.
  • Of, or relating to optics or optical instruments.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An eye.
  • *(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • *:The difference is as great between / The optics seeing, as the object seen.
  • *1819 , (Lord Byron), Don Juan , I:
  • *:how they, / Who saw those figures on the margin kiss all, / Could turn their optics to the text and pray, / Is more than I know
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  • *:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ΒΆ ("I never) understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics ."
  • A lens or other part of an optical instrument that interacts with light.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Fenella Saunders, magazine=(American Scientist)
    • , title= Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture , passage=The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.}}
  • A measuring device with a small window, attached to an upside-down bottle, used to dispense alcoholic drinks in a bar.

    • Related terms

    * optics * optical

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