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Glasses

Glasses, also known as eyeglasses, spectacles, or colloquially as specs, are vision eyewear with clear or tinted lenses mounted in a frame that holds them in front of a person's eyes, typically utilizing a bridge over the nose and hinged arms, known as temples or temple pieces, that rest over the ears for support. Glasses are typically used for vision…

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Other names
Eyeglasses, spectacles
Specialty
Ophthalmology, optometry

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Frames

Corrective lens shape

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Glasses

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Edges251
Triples162
Avg. degree1.99
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Glasses

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related to External links · 16
Glasses → America, Antique Eyeglasses, Are Your Eyes Right, August, British Optical Association Museum, Civil War, Common Spectacles Styles, February, Internet Archive, June, NYU, October, Popular Science, Spectacles, Spectacles Gallery, The Medieval Technology
related to Later developments · 16
Glasses → Benjamin Franklin, British, Early, Edward Scarlett, Franklin, George Airy, George Whatley, Girolamo Savonarola, Historians, John Fenno, Over, The, The American, The Gazette, These, United States
related to Blue-light filtering glasses · 12
Glasses → By, CVS, Decreasing, Digital Eye Strain, However, Long, Many, Several, Similarly, The, They, UV
related to Invention · 11
Glasses → And, Dominican, February, Florence, Giordano, In, It, Italy, Pisa, Roger Bacon, The
related to Corrective lens shape · 10
Glasses → Before, Bifocal, Corrective, For, Frame, Frames, Higher, However, It, Lens
related to Safety · 10
Glasses → Alternatively, As, Canada, Construction, Nylon, Safety, There, These, They, Unlike
related to Sunglasses · 10
Glasses → Examples, Light, Liquid-crystal, Many, Polarization, Polarized, Sunglasses, To, UV, UV-400
related to Redistribution · 6
Glasses → Lions Clubs International, Needy, New Eyes, ReSpectacle, Some, Unite For Sight
related to Yellow-tinted computer/gaming glasses · 6
Glasses → Depending, LCD, These, They, This, Yellow-tinted
related to 3D glasses · 5
Glasses → An, Anaglyph, Head-mounted, Polarized, The

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lenses sunglasses used light eye also eyes may vision frames use corrective people lens often made safety spectacles prescription wear

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
GlassesOther namesEyeglasses, spectacles1.00infobox
GlassesSpecialtyOphthalmology, optometry1.00infobox
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nearsightednessinstance ofCorrectiveCorrective lenses are used to correct refractive errors by bending the light entering the eye in order to alleviate the effects of conditions0.80text
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