stereoscope

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ster=e=o=scope

CIDE DICTIONARY

stereoscope, n. [Stereo- + -scope.].

 An optical instrument for giving to pictures the appearance of solid forms, as seen in nature. It combines in one, through a bending of the rays of light, two pictures, taken for the purpose from points of view a little way apart. It is furnished with two eyeglasses, and by refraction or reflection the pictures are superimposed, so as to appear as one to the observer.  [1913 Webster]
" In the reflecting stereoscope, the rays from the two pictures are turned into the proper direction for stereoscopic vision by two plane mirrors set at an angle with each other, and between the pictures. In the lenticular stereoscope, the form in general use, the eyeglasses are semilenses, or marginal portions of the same convex lenses, set with their edges toward each other, so that they deflect the rays coming from the picture so as to strike the eyes as if coming direct from an intermediate point, where the two pictures are seen apparently as one."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

stereoscope, n. a device by which two photographs of the same object taken at slightly different angles are viewed together, giving an impression of depth and solidity as in ordinary human vision.

Derivative

stereoscopic adj. stereoscopically adv. stereoscopy n.

ROGET THESAURUS

stereoscope

Optical Instruments

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