Both concave and convex lenses are used in glasses; A microscope, like a reflecting telescope, uses a concave mirror, a plane mirror, and a convex lens; A refracting telescope uses two convex lenses to magnify images in the sky; binoculars use concave lenses to improve detail.
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A concave lens can be used for magnifying glasses and glasses to correct nearsightedness.
EDIT: Magnifying glasses use convex lenses, as those lenses ENLARGE objects.
Concave lenses are used in glasses for people who are near-sighted. Convex lenses are used in glasses for people who are far-sighted.
A lense which bulges outwards is a convex lense.Additionally, a lense which bulges in is called a concave lense. You can remember the difference by thinking about the fact that a cave is like an inward bulge in a cliff, and the inward-bulging lenses are concave.
Concave means that there is a dip in the object, like it has caved in. Bi-concave means that it is dipped in on two sides of the object. A good example is a red blood cell. It is a bi-concave disk - it has dips on two sides of it.
The focal length of the lens and the distance between the lens and the object.
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