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monovision

monovision noun: a treatment for presbyopia in which one eye is treated to improve distance vision and the other eye is treated to improve close-up vision.

Noun

monovision (uncountable)

  1. A treatment for presbyopia in which one eye is treated to improve distance vision and the other eye is treated to improve close-up vision
    • a monovision effect
    • Until recently, there wasn't much more one could do than to succumb to a pair of reading glasses, or try to correct the problem with either monovision contact lenses (one eye is corrected for distance, one for up close) or laser surgery .2009 January 1, Camille Sweeney, “To Squint or to See the Light”, in New York Times

Origin of monovision

From mono- + vision.

Questions about monovision

What does monovision mean?
Monovision means a treatment for presbyopia in which one eye is treated to improve distance vision and the other eye is treated to improve close-up vision.
What part of speech is monovision?
Monovision is a noun.

Words near monovision in the dictionary

  1. monoverses
  2. monoverticillate
  3. monovinyl
  4. monovinyl benzene
  5. monovinylbenzene
  6. monovision
  7. monovisioned
  8. monovocal
  9. monovocality
  10. monovoltine
  11. monovular

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