Monocular vs Biocular - What's the difference?
monocular | biocular |
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
Of any optical system suitable for use by one eye at a time.
(rare) A monocle.
* 1906, Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
In which the optical components are shared by both of the viewer's eyes.
As adjectives the difference between monocular and biocular
is that monocular is having one eye while biocular is in which the optical components are shared by both of the viewer's eyes.As a noun monocular
is (rare) a monocle.monocular
English
Adjective
(head)- 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.
Noun
(en noun)- The moony monocular set in his eye / Appeared to be scanning the Sweet Bye-and-Bye.