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contact lens

very thin plastic lens worn directly on the eye to correct visual defects
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contact lens

Summary

contact lens ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (348 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • contact lens is a type of corrective lens[2].
  • contact lens's Commons category is recorded as Contact lenses[3].
  • contact lens's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Contact lenses[4].
  • contact lens's Commons gallery is recorded as Contact lens[5].
  • contact lens's different from is recorded as Contact[6].
  • contact lens's different from is recorded as Lentilles[7].
  • contact lens's WordLift URL is recorded as http://data.medicalrecords.com/medicalrecords/healthwise/contact_lenses[8].
  • contact lens's worn on is recorded as eye[9].

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Definition and Type

contact lens is a type of corrective lens[2].

Why It Matters

contact lens ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (348 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

Related Entities

bionic contact lens

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . medicalrecords.com. medicalrecords.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_contact-lens_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{contact lens}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/contact-lens}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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  1. 11d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Contact, Lentilles
    Aliases → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Contact lenses
    Worn on → eye
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 4134, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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