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hard' lens'




a contact lens of rigid plastic or silicon, exerting light pressure on the cornea of the eye, used for correcting various vision problems including astigmatism. Cf. soft lens.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

hard-laidhard light
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