contact lens

1. 1.

   a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication

   Synonymscontact

   Broaderlens

Questions about contact lens

What does contact lens mean?

contact lens means "a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication".

What is another word for contact lens?

Close synonyms include contact. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is contact lens a common word?

contact lens is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.