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What do you mean by the accommodation of the eye? What gives the eye the power of accommodation?

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Accommodation of an eye is its ability to alter the focal length of its lens for clearly seeing all the objects within a certain range. This is achieved by changing the thickness of the lens. Hence, its focal length is changed by the action of ciliary muscles.

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