English Explanatory Dictionary

trifocals

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Spectacles with corrective lenses that have three different powers per eye.

Word forms

trifocals

Etymology

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

Related words

bifocals trifocal
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