Prescription (Noun)
Meaning 1
Written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The doctor's prescription indicated that I needed to wear reading glasses with a magnification of +2.0 diopters in each lens.
- To ensure that I received the correct lenses, I provided the optician with my latest prescription from my eye doctor.
- My prescription included instructions for both my distance vision and near vision lenses.
- I gave the optician my prescription, and they promised to have my new glasses ready in a week.
- After completing the eye exam, the doctor wrote out a prescription for my corrective lenses.
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Meaning 2
Written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 3
A drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist; "he told the doctor that he had been taking his prescription regularly".
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
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Meaning 4
Directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions; "I tried to follow her prescription for success".
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.