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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having or affording a wide range of vision.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Literally, seeing everything; -- a term applied to eyeglasses or spectacles divided into two segments, the upper being designed for distant vision, the lower for vision of near objects.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective optics Designed to focus on both near and distant objects at the same time

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