contact lens
noun
: a thin lens designed to fit over the cornea and usually worn to correct defects in vision
Examples of contact lens in a Sentence
She wears contact lenses more often than glasses.
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Your provider can carefully examine your eye under a microscope and flip your lid up to safely fish out any contact lens or piece of a lens that might be lurking therein.
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Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 30 Apr. 2025
Using a biofilm of Vibrio cholerae bacteria, Yunker’s team described the shape of the emerging biofilm as a spherical cap that resembles a contact lens.
—Carrie Arnold, Quanta Magazine, 21 Apr. 2025
Still, researchers at Alphabet and Novartis couldn’t build an accurate glucose sensor in a contact lens.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2018
Practice safe contact lens care: This includes keeping your prescription up to date, disinfecting contacts nightly, and replacing them regularly.
—Cristina Mutchler, Health, 1 Apr. 2025
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Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 30 Apr. 2025
Using a biofilm of Vibrio cholerae bacteria, Yunker’s team described the shape of the emerging biofilm as a spherical cap that resembles a contact lens.
—Carrie Arnold, Quanta Magazine, 21 Apr. 2025
Still, researchers at Alphabet and Novartis couldn’t build an accurate glucose sensor in a contact lens.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2018
Practice safe contact lens care: This includes keeping your prescription up to date, disinfecting contacts nightly, and replacing them regularly.
—Cristina Mutchler, Health, 1 Apr. 2025
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“Contact lens.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contact%20lens. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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contact lens
noun
con·tact lens
ˌkän-ˌtakt- 
: a thin lens designed to fit over the cornea and usually worn to correct defects in vision
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