View synonyms for twenty-twenty

twenty-twenty

or 20/20

[ twen-tee-twen-tee, twuhn-tee-twuhn-tee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

twenty-twenty

twenty-twenty

/ twĕn′tē-twĕn′tē /

Having normal visual acuity. A person with twenty-twenty vision can see type as small as one-third of an inch at a distance of twenty feet.

First recorded in 1875–80; extracted from Ophthalmic Manual (1875), by Sir Thomas Longmore, chief medical officer of the British armed forces

"Nineteen—twenty—twenty-one," the people in the Garden of the Tuileries counted.

April 20, 2024flabbergast

[flab-er-gast ]

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