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Binoculars vs Monocular - What's the difference?

binoculars | monocular |

As nouns the difference between binoculars and monocular

is that binoculars is a hand-held device consisting of a series of lenses and prisms, used to magnify objects so that they can be better seen from a distance, and looked at through both eyes while monocular is a monocle.

As an adjective monocular is

having one eye.

binoculars

English

(wikipedia binoculars)

Noun

  • A hand-held device consisting of a series of lenses and prisms, used to magnify objects so that they can be better seen from a distance, and looked at through both eyes.
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    • Usage notes

    * A single device is called a pair of binoculars, and the plural "pairs of binoculars" is used for more than one device.

    Synonyms

    * binocs * field glasses * spyglass

    See also

    * binocular * (wikipedia "binoculars")

    monocular

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Having one eye.
  • * 1888, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • *:...one of his sparks alighted upon my eye and destroyed it making me a monocular ape;
  • Related to a monocle.
  • * 1906, Amelia Barr, The Man Between
    • You are not such a foolish woman as to like to be seen with Fred Mostyn, that little monocular snob, after the aristocratic, handsome Basil Stanhope.
  • Of any optical system suitable for use by one eye at a time.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) A monocle.
  • * 1906, Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
    • The moony monocular set in his eye / Appeared to be scanning the Sweet Bye-and-Bye.

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