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bifocals

bifocals noun: spectacles that have corrective lenses of two different powers; used by people who need both distance and reading glasses.

Noun

bifocals pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Spectacles that have corrective lenses of two different powers; used by people who need both distance and reading glasses.
    • He unfolded a pair of bifocals and thrust them as far up the bridge of his nose as possible.2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 116

bifocals meaning in Kannada

bifocals in Kannada

ದ್ವಿನಾಭಿ ಕನ್ನಡಕ

Origin of bifocals

From bi- + focal (see focus), coined in 1824 by John Isaac Hawkins, inventor of trifocals. When the concept of bifocals was originally conceived by Benjamin Franklin, he called them double spectacles.

Words formed from bifocals

Questions about bifocals

What does bifocals mean?
Bifocals means spectacles that have corrective lenses of two different powers; used by people who need both distance and reading glasses.
What is bifocals in Kannada?
Bifocals in Kannada is ದ್ವಿನಾಭಿ ಕನ್ನಡಕ. See Bifocals meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is bifocals?
Bifocals is a noun.

Words near bifocals in the dictionary

  1. bifocal
  2. bifocaled
  3. bifocalities
  4. bifocality
  5. bifocalled
  6. bifocals
  7. bifoconazole
  8. bifocus
  9. bifold
  10. bifolding
  11. bifolds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bifocals (page history and authors); bifocals (Kannada 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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