stereoscope

American  

[ster-ee-uh-skohp, steer-] / ˈstɛr i əˌskoʊp, ˈstɪər- /

noun

1. an optical instrument through which two pictures of the same object, taken from slightly different points of view, are viewed, one by each eye, producing the effect of a single picture of the object, with the appearance of depth or relief.

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stereoscope British  

/ ˈstɪər-, ˈstɛrɪəˌskəʊp /

noun

1. an optical instrument for viewing two-dimensional pictures and giving them an illusion of depth and relief. It has a binocular eyepiece through which two slightly different pictures of the same object are viewed, one with each eye

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stereoscope Scientific  

/ stĕr′ē-ə-skōp′ /

1. An optical instrument through which two slightly different images (typically photographs) of the same scene are presented, one to each eye, providing an illusion of three dimensions. Modern virtual reality equipment often uses a stereoscope that presents animated, computer-generated images to the eyes, rather than photographic images.

2. ◆ A stereogram is a single pair of photographic images used in a stereograph.

3. See also stereoscopic vision

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Etymology

Origin of stereoscope

First recorded in 1830–40; stereo- + -scope

Example Sentences

Newest items in stereo gadgetry: > For the listener who wants to taste stereo's delights on the cheap, here is the Pioneer Stereoscope.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Felix Crying, a 1998-99 drawing taken from his short film Stereoscope, an inconsolable Felix stands in a rising pool of his own blue grief as it cascades from his pockets.

From Time Magazine Archive

To our photographic readers, the present reprint will be of especial interest for the very able paper "On the Stereoscope and Binocular Perspective," which is appended to it.

From Notes and Queries, Number 232, April 8, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various

Applications of Science, including Photography and the Stereoscope, Electro-Metallurgy, etc., with all their minute and recreative manipulations.

From Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations by Slack, Henry J.

Binocular Compound Microscope.—Will you allow me an exiguum of your periodical for the purpose of explaining a seeming plagiarism at page 32. of my Essay on the Stereoscope?

From Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George