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bifocal

bifocal adjective: having two focal lengths.

Adjective

bifocal (not comparable)

  1. Having two focal lengths.
    • His hair is black and well greased, with individual strands of gray, and he wears wire-rimmed bifocals with a subtle brownish tint.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 183
  2. Divided into two parts, one of which corrects for distance vision and the other for near vision.

bifocal meaning in Tamil

bifocal in Tamil

இருகுவிய, இருபார்வை கண்ணாடி, இருமுகப்புக்களுடைய பகுதிகள் இனைந்த

Origin of bifocal

By surface analysis, bi- + focal, or, by surface analysis, bi- + foc(us) + -al.

Words formed from bifocal

Questions about bifocal

What does bifocal mean?
Bifocal means having two focal lengths.
What is bifocal in Tamil?
Bifocal in Tamil is இருகுவிய, இருபார்வை கண்ணாடி, இருமுகப்புக்களுடைய பகுதிகள் இனைந்த. See Bifocal meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bifocal?
Bifocal is an adjective.

Words near bifocal in the dictionary

  1. bifluoride
  2. bifluorides
  3. bifluranol
  4. biflux
  5. bifluxes
  6. bifocal
  7. bifocaled
  8. bifocalities
  9. bifocality
  10. bifocalled
  11. bifocals

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bifocal (page history and authors); bifocal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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