binocular
Usually binoculars. Also called pair of binoculars, prism binoculars. an optical device, providing good depth effect, for use with both eyes, consisting of two small telescopes fitted together side by side, each telescope having two prisms between the eyepiece and objective for erecting the image.
involving both eyes: binocular vision.
Origin of binocular
1Other words from binocular
- bin·oc·u·lar·i·ty, noun
- bin·oc·u·lar·ly, adverb
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How to use binocular in a sentence
Incidentally, because it is close to the sun, please don’t use binoculars or a telescope to look directly at the sun.
Skywatch: What’s happening in the heavens in February | Blaine P. Friedlander Jr. | January 30, 2021 | Washington PostHis bodyguard, up in the stands, considered reaching for the pistol in his binocular case.
Baseball Legend Hank Aaron Has Passed Away, But His Home Run Record Remains a Lesson in Courage and Commitment | Sean Gregory | January 22, 2021 | TimePeople can pay homage to Galileo by observing this conjunction with a pair of binoculars, if not a telescope.
Jupiter and Saturn ‘great conjunction’ awes world. Here’s how to see it | rhhackettfortune | December 22, 2020 | FortuneMy companions scanned the treetops with binoculars and a thermal-imaging monocular.
On a cool night in Malaysia, scientists track mysterious colugos across the treetops | Yao-Hua Law | November 20, 2020 | Science NewsBank fishing is a lot like jump-shooting waterfowl in that you can use binoculars and you can see the ripples or a pod of fish in the water.
Don’t have a boat? Try bowfishing. | By Natalie Krebs/Outdoor Life | November 3, 2020 | Popular-Science
One of the officers instantly went to the top with his binocular, bringing it to bear on a small, far distant speck on the ocean.
Young Glory and the Spanish Cruiser | Walter Fenton MottBut no sign of the Polynesia 55 was discovered through the powerful binocular glasses with which Captain Bergen swept the horizon.
Adrift on the Pacific | Edward S. EllisThen getting out a powerful binocular I rode up to a point whence I knew I could command a considerable sweep.
A Frontier Mystery | Bertram MitfordThis identity presupposes the habit of binocular fusion; but convergent squint arises, as a rule, before this habit is acquired.
Schweigger on Squint | C. SchweiggerExamination with the stereoscope showed no normal binocular fusion even during normal position of the eyes.
Schweigger on Squint | C. Schweigger
British Dictionary definitions for binocular
/ (bɪˈnɒkjʊlə, baɪ-) /
involving, relating to, seeing with or intended for both eyes: binocular vision
Origin of binocular
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Scientific definitions for binocular
[ bə-nŏk′yə-lər ]
Relating to or involving both eyes at once, as in binocular vision.
An optical device, such as a pair of field glasses, consisting of two small telescopes, designed for use by both eyes at once. Often used in the plural as binoculars.
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