From: Optical@Guy.com   
      
   Louis Boyd wrote:   
      
   > > Do many people use the term "magnification" incorrectly when   
   > > talking about reading glasses?   
   >   
   > Part of life is learning the vernacular use of words and phrases.   
   > What's important, making  yourself understood or using a scientific   
   > definition?   
      
   My basic question was - do reading glasses perform any sort of   
   magnification (when worn on your nose such that the lenses are located a   
   fraction of an inch in front of your eyes) ?   
      
   The fact that reading glasses may be labelled as or in terms of   
   magnifiers is a side-tangent issue to my basic question.   
      
   I was trying to make the point that when you quickly move a pair of   
   reading glasses quickly on and off your nose, that they don't seem to   
   make any apparent change to the size of text that's held close to your   
   face, but they do change the focus of the text so that it's easier to   
   read.   
      
   So am I right - that referring to reading glasses as "magnifiers" is   
   technically not correct?   
      
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