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.

Noun

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(label) The physics of light and vision.

The light-related aspects of a device.

*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)

, magazine=(American Scientist), title= The Evolution of Eyeglasses , passage=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,

(label) Perception, image, public relations.

* 2007 January 1, (Mark Steyn), " Blowing a 'hinge moment' of history", in (The Jerusalem Post) :

; if you have to have victims' loved ones present, go for the widows and photogenic orphans rather than Moqtada's boys.

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