English
Inserting a contact lens.
Noun
contact lens plural contact lenses
A thin lens, made of flexible or rigid plastic, that is placed directly on to the eye to correct vision, used as an alternative to spectacles , or, if coloured, to change one's eye color cosmetically.
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Translations
thin lens placed directly on the eye
Arabic: عدسَة لاقصَة f عَدَسَة f ( ʕadasa )
Asturian: lentilla f
Catalan: lent de contacte (ca) f lentilla f lentícula (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 隱形眼鏡 ／ 隐形眼镜 (zh) ( yǐnxíng yǎnjìng ) , 隐形眼镜 (zh) ( yǐnxíng yǎnjìng )
Czech: kontaktní čočka f
Danish: kontaktlinse (da) c
Dutch: contactlens (nl) f
Finnish: piilolinssi (fi)
French: lentille de contact (fr) f
Galician: lente de contacto f
Georgian: კონტაქტური ლინზა ( ḳonṭakṭuri linza )
German: Kontaktlinse (de) f
Greek: φακός επαφής (el) m ( fakós epafís )
Hungarian: kontaktlencse (hu)
Icelandic: augnlinsa f
Italian: lente a contatto f
Japanese: コンタクトレンズ ( kontakuto renzu ) , コンタクト (ja) ( kontakuto )
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Korean: 콘택트 렌즈 ( kontaekteu renjeu ) , 렌즈 (ko) ( renjeu ) , 콘택트 ( kontaekteu )
Macedonian: ко́нтактна ле́ќа f ( kóntaktna léḱa ) , ко́нтактни ле́ќи pl ( kóntaktni léḱi )
Mongolian: контакт линз ( kontakt linz )
Norman: cricot d'contact m ( Jersey )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kontaktlinse m or f
Nynorsk: kontaktlinse f
Polish: szkło kontaktowe (pl) n soczewka kontaktowa (pl) f kontakt (pl) m inan ( colloquial )
Portuguese: lente de contato (pt) f
Romanian: lentilă de contact (ro) f lentile de contact f pl
Russian: конта́ктная ли́нза (ru) f ( kontáktnaja línza ) , ли́нза (ru) f ( línza )
Serbo-Croatian: kontaktne leće контактне леће
Spanish: lentilla f lente de contacto m
Swedish: kontaktlins (sv) c
Thai: เลนส์สัมผัส ( leen-sǎm-pàt )
Turkish: lens (tr) , kontakt lens
Vietnamese: kính áp tròng kính sát tròng
Volapük: kontagalentül
Further reading
contact lens on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 