Definition of Trifocal

1. Adjective. (optics) Of or pertaining to corrective lenses that have three different powers per eye. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Trifocal

1. a type of lens [n -S] - See also: lens

Medical Definition of Trifocal

1. Having three foci. See: trifocal lens. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trifocal

trifluoromethanesulfonyl azide
trifluoromethoxy
trifluoromethyl
trifluoromethylaniline
trifluoromethylanilines
trifluoromethylation
trifluoromethylphenylpiperazine
trifluperidol
trifluperidol hydrochloride
triflupromazine
triflupromazine hydrochloride
trifluralin
trifluralins
trifluridine
triflyl azide
trifocal (current term)
trifocal lens
trifocals
trifold
trifoliata
trifoliate
trifoliate orange
trifoliated
trifolies
trifoliolate
trifoliolate leaf
trifoliosis
trifolirhizin
trifolium
trifoliums

Literary usage of Trifocal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1876)
"Папе trifocal cubics exhibit (in their* point-equations) cusps at infinity, but have not coincident asymptotes. 9. The other two groups of spherical cubics ..."

2. The Well-Being of Video Display Terminal Users: An Exploratory Study by Mark S Gottlieb, Steven L Sauter, Vernon M Dodson, Kathryn M Rohrer (1999)
"However, the proportion of bifocal/trifocal wearers reporting strains is also in excess of the proportion of individuals without corrective eyewear ..."

3. The Cornerstone of Development: Integrating Environmental, Social, and by Jamie Schnurr, Susan Holtz (1998)
"The present conceptual framework: trifocal vision One of the main obstacles to developing a common conceptual framework for ecological, economic, ..."

4. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1890)
"(trifocal.) ing in the far-vision lens and secured therein by suitable adhesive substance substantially as set." To any one who has followed this article it ..."

5. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1914)
"UNIFORMLY CURVED trifocal LENS HENRY BOLDE, of New York, assignor to the Meyrowitz Manufacturing Company, has patented a trifocal lens in which two minor ..."

6. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1876)
"... although, as in cubics of the third order, they are not coextensive. There are three species only in piano of trifocal cubics (complex, ..."

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