Meaning

1 senses
  1. (plural, plural only)Spectacles with corrective lenses that have three different powers per eye.

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From tri- + focal (see focus). Coined by John Isaac Hawkins, their inventor, in 1826.

From tri- + focal (see focus). Coined by John Isaac Hawkins, their inventor, in 1826.

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Forms

plural: trifocalses
Singulartrifocals
Pluraltrifocalses

regular

Word family

2 related words

See also

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