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nosepiece

noun

Etymology

From nose + piece.

  1. derived from *kʷezdis✻ — “piece, portion, quota”
  2. derived from *pettyā✻
  3. derived from petia
  4. derived from piece
  5. inherited from pece
  6. compounded as nosepiece — “nose + piece”

Definitions

  1. Anything (originally a piece of armour) that protects the nose.

    • At impact, the nosepiece of Phelps’s goggles snapped.

  2. An animal's noseband.

  3. The bridge between spectacle lenses that rests on the nose.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. The part of a microscope that holds the objectives.

    2. The outer end or point of a pipe, bellows, etc.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA