| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. In a binocular manner.[Websters]
2. In a twin manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Rarely used adverbial inflection of the adjective binocular.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Form (binocular) | 1. Relating to both eyes; "binocular vision".[Wordnet]. 2. Having two eyes.[Websters]. 3. Pertaining to both eyes; employing both eyes at once; as, binocular vision.[Websters]. 4. Adapted to the use of both eyes; as, a binocular microscope or telescope.[Websters]. 5. Being twin.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Adjective base of the adverb binocularly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "BINOCULARLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: binocular
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Business | Having two eyepieces, and therefore permitting the observer to view with both eyes. (references) | ||
| Metallurgy | Binocular of a microscope with an objective lens for observing the focal position and the material removal. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Physics | 1: An optical instrument composed of two refracting telescopes mounted on a single frame and containing erecting systems usu. with both focusing tubes simultaneously adjustable. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: Of or relating to both eyes employing both eyes at once adapted to the use of both eyes. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Common Expressions: binocular
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Binocular microscope | A light microscope adapted to the use of both eyes. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Binocular rivalry | Binocular rivalry is a phenomenon of visual perception in which perception alternates between different images presented to each eye. When one image is presented to one eye and a very different image is presented to the other, instead of the two images being seen superimposed, one image is seen for a few moments, then the other, then the first, and so on, randomly for as long as one cares to look. For example if a set of vertical lines is presented to one eye, and a set of horizontal lines to the same region of the retina of the other, alternations between the vertical and horizontal lines is seen. At transitions, brief, unstable composites of the two images may be seen; these are often organized. For example, the vertical lines may appear one at a time to obscure the horizontal lines from the left or from the right, or the horizontal lines make appear one at a time to obscure the vertical lines from the top or from the bottom. Binocular rivalry occurs between any stimuli that differ sufficiently, including simple stimuli like lines of different orientation and complex stimuli like different alphabetic letters or different pictures such as of a face and of a house. Very small differences between images, however, might yield singleness of vision and stereopsis. In recent years neuroscientists have used brain imaging techniques and single-cell recording techniques to identify neural events responsible for the perceptual dominance of a given image and for the perceptual alternations. (references) | ||
| Binocular vision | Vision involving the use of both eyes. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Binocular vision | Binocular vision is vision in which both eyes are used together. The word binocular comes from two Latin roots, bin for two, and oculus for eye. Having two eyes confers at least four advantages over having one. First, it gives a creature a spare eye in case one is damaged. Second, it gives a wider field of view. For example, a human has a horizontal field of view with one eye of about 150 degrees and with two eyes of about 180 degrees. Third, it gives binocular summation in which the ability to detect faint objects is enhanced. Fourth it can give stereopsis in which parallax provided by the two eye's different positions on the head give precise depth perception. Such binocular vision is usually accompanied by singleness of vision or binocular fusion, in which a single image is seen despite each eye's having its own image of any object. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: binocular
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Binocular vision | Health | The blending of the separate images seen by each eye into a single image; allows images to be seen with depth. (references) | |
| Binocular vision | Medicine | 1: That in which the retinal images from the two eyes are seen simultaneously either fused as one, double or with part of one image suppressed. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| 2: Vision in which both eyes contribute toward producing a single fused percept. Source: European Union. (references) | |||
| Greenough binocular microscope | Medicine | A low power stereomicroscope with erecting prisms, used in dissecting, and with the slit lamp. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Vision, Binocular | Health | The blending of separate images seen by each eye into one composite image. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: binocular | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Binocular | 31 | Binocular | 31 | |
| Binocular vision | 21 | Binocular disparity | 12 | |
| Binocular rivalry | 17 | Binocular rivalry | 17 | |
| Large Binocular Telescope | 15 | Binocular vision | 21 | |
| Binocular disparity | 12 | Large Binocular Telescope | 15 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
