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Telescopes vs Eyeglasses - What's the difference?

telescopes | eyeglasses |

As a verb telescopes

is .

As a noun eyeglasses is

(label) spectacles, glasses.

telescopes

English

Noun

(head)

    • eyeglasses

    English

    Noun

  • (label) Spectacles, glasses.
  • *{{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,
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    • See also

    * lorgnette * lorgnon