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| Glasses, spectacles, or eyeglasses are frames bearing lenses worn in front of the eyes, sometimes for purely aesthetic reasons but normally for vision correction or eye protection. Special glasses are used for viewing 3-D images or virtual reality.
Modern eyeglasses are typically supported by pads on the bridge of the nose and by arms placed over the ears. Historical types include the pince nez, monocle, and lorgnette. Glasses are more often called eyeglasses in North American English, spectacles in British English, and (rarely) frames or lenses. Spectacles is often shortened to specs. In hipster slang they are cheaters. Also see usage of words for eyepieces for a more detailed examination of the different usages for these words. Eyeglasses were originally made from glass, but many are now made from plastic due to the danger of breakage and the greater weight of glass lenses. Glass lenses, on the other hand, are much less susceptible to scratching. Corrective spectacles have lenses shaped to correct some kinds of vision abnormalities.
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