What is a single eyeglass called?

What is a single eyeglass called?

A monocle is a type of corrective lens used to correct or enhance the visual perception in only one eye. It consists of a circular lens, generally with a wire ring around the circumference that can be attached to a string or wire.

What is a single vision lens?

Eyeglasses with single vision lenses may be right for you if you are nearsighted or farsighted. The single focus of the single vision lens sharpens your view of either nearby objects or faraway items, but not both. Reading glasses are a type of single vision lens that might be right for you if you are farsighted.

What is an eyeglass store called?

In the U.S., you should call it an "optical shop" (1.27 million google hits), which I believe is the most common term in American English for it. "Optical store" only gets 1/5 of the hits, although as nohat points out, this is what both LensCrafters and J.C. Penney call their optical shops.

What is a quizzing glass?

A “quizzing glass” was a single magnifying lens on a handle which was held up before the eye to enable closer scrutiny of the object in view. The quizzing glass is not to be confused with the lorgnette, which has two lenses, and more often than not a correctable (prescription) lens rather than a simple magnifier.