bifocals

Betekenis (Engels)

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

Sinonieme

pince-nez

spectacles

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bifocal spectacle

Vertalings

النّظّارة

bifocals

bifocales

lente bifocal

Etimologie (Engels)

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.