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2. Adjustable-focus eyeglasses - Wikipedia

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   Adjustable focus eyeglasses are eyeglasses with an adjustable focal length. They compensate for refractive errors (such as presbyopia) by providing variable focusing, allowing users to adjust them for desired distance or prescription, or both. Current bifocals and progressive lenses are static, in that the user has to change their eye position ...

3. Transitions Optical - Wikipedia

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   Transitions Optical is a U.S. -based company known for manufacturing photochromic lenses, which darken on exposure to specific types of light. The company was founded in 1990. [1] In 1991, Transitions Optical became the first company to commercialize and manufacture plastic photochromic lenses. [2] From inception the company has been a joint ...

4. Ballistic eyewear - Wikipedia

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   Ballistic eyewear. Ballistic eyewear is a form of glasses or goggles that protect from small projectiles and fragments. For the U.S. military, choices are listed on the Authorized Protective Eyewear List (APEL). [1] Ballistic eyewear including examples that meet APEL requirements are commercially available for anyone who wishes to buy it.

5. Corrective lens - Wikipedia

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   Corrective lens. A corrective lens is a transmissive optical device that is worn on the eye to improve visual perception. The most common use is to treat refractive errors: myopia, hypermetropia, astigmatism, and presbyopia. Glasses or "spectacles" are worn on the face a short distance in front of the eye.

6. Eyeglass prescription - Wikipedia

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   Eyeglass prescription. Using a phoropter to determine a prescription for eyeglasses. An eyeglass prescription is an order written by an eyewear prescriber, such as an optometrist, that specifies the value of all parameters the prescriber has deemed necessary to construct and/or dispense corrective lenses appropriate for a patient.

7. Presbyopia - Wikipedia

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   Presbyopia is a typical part of the aging process. [4] It occurs due to age related changes in the lens (decreased elasticity and increased hardness) and ciliary muscle (decreased strength and ability to move the lens), causing the eye to focus right behind rather than on the retina when looking at close objects. [4]