PROGRESSIVELENS
Progressive lens
Progressive spectacle lenses, also called progressive addition lenses , progressive power lenses, graduated prescription lenses, and varifocal or multifocal lenses, are corrective lenses used in eyeglasses to correct presbyopia and other disorders of accommodation. They are characterised by a gradient of increasing lens power, added to the wearer's correction for the other refractive errors. The gradient starts at the wearer's distance prescription, at the top of the lens and reaches a maximum addition power, or the full reading addition, at the bottom of the lens. The length of ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Progressive lens
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