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Bifocals   /bˈaɪfoʊkəlz/   Listen
Bifocals

noun
1.
Eyeglasses having two focal lengths, one for near vision and the other for far vision.





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"Bifocals" Quotes from Famous Books



... woman sat in a rocking chair in the shade of the porch. She held a bowl of purple river apples in her lap. Her papyrus-like hands moved quickly as she shaved the skin from one. In a matter of seconds it was peeled. She looked up over her bifocals at ...
— One Martian Afternoon • Tom Leahy
... popular man in Europe in the year 1783 was still the United States Minister to France. The figure of plain Benjamin Franklin, his broad head, with the calm, shrewd eyes peering through the bifocals of his own invention, invested with a halo of great learning and fame, entirely captivated the ...
— The Age of Invention - A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest, Book, 37 in The - Chronicles of America Series • Holland Thompson


Words linked to "Bifocals" :   specs, eyeglasses, plural, glasses, spectacles


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