Binocle
binocular (def 1).
a card game of the bezique family that is played by two persons with a 48-card pack, the lowest card of which is nine.
Historical Examples
An Oregon Girl Alfred Ernest Rice
Happy-Thought Hall F. C. Burnand
Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) Various
Trumpeter Fred Charles King
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- Binocs
plural noun Word Origin Usage Note
- Binocular disparity
noun (physiol) the small differences in the positions of the parts of the images falling on each eye that results when each eye views the scene from a slightly different position; these differences make stereoscopic vision possible Historical Examples Visual Illusions Matthew Luckiesh Visual Illusions Matthew Luckiesh
- Binocular microscope
binocular microscope Historical Examples Planet of the Damned Harry Harrison Marvels of Pond-life Henry J. Slack The Baculum in Microtine Rodents Sydney Anderson Cum Grano Salis Gordon Randall Garrett Mate in Two Moves Winston Marks Thoracic and Coracoid Arteries In Two Families of Birds, Columbidae and Hirundinidae Marion Anne Jenkinson
- Binocular vision
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- Binocular rivalry
noun (psychol) the phenomenon whereby one is unable to see simultaneously different images presented one to each eye; usually in some areas of the eye the image presented to the left eye is seen, in others that presented to the right eye Also called retinal rivalry Historical Examples Psychology Robert S. Woodworth