focal distance

1. 1.

   the distance from a lens to its focus

   Synonymsfocal length

   Broaderdistance

Questions about focal distance

What does focal distance mean?

focal distance means "the distance from a lens to its focus".

What is another word for focal distance?

Close synonyms include focal length. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is focal distance a common word?

focal distance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.