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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Cataracts are not contagious and do not spread from one eye to the other.
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Ann Pietrangelo, Verywell Health, 28 May 2025
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Golden Eye: The Triggerfish smart contact lens for glaucoma monitoring uses an antenna made of gold to both receive power and send out data.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 July 2017
Shares of Cooper Companies, a medical devices and contact lens maker, were down 16.4% this month, bringing this year’s loss close to 26%.
—Pia Singh, CNBC, 31 May 2025
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Ann Pietrangelo, Verywell Health, 28 May 2025
Related Articles More highlights from the survey included nearly 90 percent of contact lens wearers’ survey stating that comfort is the most important factor when choosing contact lenses.
—Alexandra Pastore, WWD, 24 Feb. 2025
Golden Eye: The Triggerfish smart contact lens for glaucoma monitoring uses an antenna made of gold to both receive power and send out data.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 July 2017
Shares of Cooper Companies, a medical devices and contact lens maker, were down 16.4% this month, bringing this year’s loss close to 26%.
—Pia Singh, CNBC, 31 May 2025
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“Contact lens.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contact%20lens. Accessed 1 Jul. 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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