Monocular vs Trinocular - What's the difference?
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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
Using three points of vision, such as a microscope with two standard eyepieces and one camera eyepiece, or a camera rig with three cameras
Trinocular is a related term of monocular.
As adjectives the difference between monocular and trinocular
is that monocular is having one eye while trinocular is using three points of vision, such as a microscope with two standard eyepieces and one camera eyepiece, or a camera rig with three cameras.As a noun monocular
is 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.
Anagrams
*trinocular
English
Adjective
(-)- trinocular microscope
- trinocular stereovision
