binocularとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /bɪˈnɒkjʊlə(ɹ)/

形容詞

binocular (not comparable)

1. Using two eyes or viewpoints; especially, using two eyes or viewpoints to ascertain distance.

   a binocular microscope or telescope

   • 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], OCLC 2313581:

     Most animals are binocular.

   • 2013 July 9, Joselle DiNunzio Kehoe, “Cognition, brains and Riemann”, in plus.maths.org‎^[1], retrieved 2013-09-08:

     our perception of distance arises from the geometry of binocular vision and our early learning seems based on calculating probabilities.

派生語

名詞

binocular (複数形 binoculars)

1. attributive form of binoculars
2. A pair of binoculars.
   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind‎^[2]:

     He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.

3. (dated) Any binocular glass, such as an opera glass, telescope, or microscope.

参考

• binoculars