eyeglass

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: eye=glass

CIDE DICTIONARY

eyeglass, n. 

•  A lens of glass worn in front of the eye to assist vision; -- usually used in the plural, referring to a pair of lenses fixed together in a frame, and worn resting on the bridge of the nose, to improve the vision. A single eyeglass in a frame is called a monocle.  [1913 Webster]
•  Eyepiece of a telescope, microscope, etc.  [1913 Webster]
•  The retina.  [1913 Webster]
•  A glass eyecup. See Eyecup.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

eyeglass, n.
1 a a lens for correcting or assisting defective sight. b (in pl.) a pair of these held in the hand or kept in position on the nose by means of a frame or a spring.
2 a small glass vessel for applying lotion etc. to the eye.

THESAURUS

eyeglass

Polaroid glasses, achromatic lens, astigmatic lens, bifocals, blinkers, burning glass, camera, cheaters, coated lens, colored glasses, concave lens, concavo-convex lens, condenser, contact lens, convex lens, dark glasses, divided spectacles, eyeglasses, eyepiece, glass, glasses, goggles, granny glasses, hand lens, harlequin glasses, horn-rimmed glasses, lens, lorgnette, lorgnon, magnifier, magnifying glass, meniscus, mini-specs, monocle, nippers, object glass, objective, objective prism, ocular, pair of glasses, peepers, prism, quizzing glass, reader, readers, reading glass, reading glasses, shades, specs, spectacles, sun-specs, sunglasses, telephoto lens, toric lens, trifocals, varifocal lens, zoom lens

ROGET THESAURUS

eyeglass

Optical Instruments

N optical instruments, lens, meniscus, magnifier, sunglass, magnifying glass, hand lens, microscope, megascope, tienoscope, spectacles, specs, glasses, barnacles, goggles, eyeglass, pince-nez, monocle, reading glasses, bifocals, contact lenses, soft lenses, hard lenses, sunglasses, shades, periscopic lens, telescope, glass, lorgnette, spyglass, opera glass, binocular, binoculars, field glass, burning glass, convex lens, concave lens, convexo-concave lens, coated lens, multiple lens, compound lens, lens system, telephoto lens, wide-angle lens, fish-eye lens, zoom lens, optical bench, astronomical telescope, reflecting telescope, reflector, refracting telescope, refractor, Newtonian telescope, folded-path telescope, finder telescope, chromatoscope, X-ray telescope, radiotelescope, phased-array telescope, Very Large Array radiotelescope, ultraviolet telescope, infrared telescope, star spectroscope, space telescope, altazimuth mount, equatorial mount, refractometer, circular dichroism spectrometer, interferometer, phase-contrast microscope, fluorescence microscope, dissecting microscope, electron microscope, transmission electron microscope, scanning electron microscope, SEM, scanning tunneling electron microscope, objective lens, eyepiece, barrel, platform, focusing knob, slide, slide glass, cover glass, counting chamber, illuminator, light source, polarizer, reticle, cross-hairs, light pipe, fiber optics mirror, reflector, speculum, looking- glass, pier-glass, cheval-glass, rear-view mirror, hand mirror, one-way mirror, magnifying mirror, fun house, prism, diffraction grating, beam splitter, half-wave plate, quarter-wave plate, camera lucida, camera obscura, magic lantern, stereopticon, chromatrope, thaumatrope, stereoscope, pseudoscope, polyscope, kaleidoscope, photometer, eriometer, actinometer, lucimeter, radiometer, ligth detector, photodiode, photomultiplier, photodiode array, photocell, X-ray diffractometer, goniometer, spectrometer, monochrometer, UV spectrometer, visible spectrometer, Infrared spectrometer, Fourier transform infrared spectrometer, recording spectrometer, densitometer, scanning densitometer, two-dimensional densitometer, abdominoscope, gastroscope, helioscope, polariscope, polemoscope, spectroscope, abdominoscopy, gastroscopy, microscopy, microscopist.