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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]nosepiece (plural nosepieces)
- Anything (originally a piece of armour) that protects the nose.
- 2009 August 2, Karen Crouse, “Phelps Grabs Record in 100 Butterfly”, in New York Times[1]:
- At impact, the nosepiece of Phelps’s goggles snapped.
- An animal's noseband.
- The bridge between spectacle lenses that rests on the nose.
- The part of a microscope that holds the objectives.
- The outer end or point of a pipe, bellows, etc.