stereoscopic
Americanadjective
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noting or pertaining to three-dimensional vision or any of various processes and devices for giving the illusion of depth from two-dimensional images or reproductions, as of a photograph or motion picture.
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of, relating to, or characterized by a stereoscope or stereoscopy.
adjective
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of, concerned with, or relating to seeing space three-dimensionally as a result of binocular disparity
stereoscopic vision
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of, relating to, or formed by a stereoscope
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of stereoscopic
First recorded in 1850–55; stereoscope + -ic
Example Sentences
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“Like a stereoscopic image coming into focus,” he writes, “my parallel lives in physics and jazz blended before my eyes.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
The researchers asked six trained remote sensing surveyors and six novices to assess 10,000 stereoscopic aerial images of hedges and ditches, which had been heavily masked with image distortions.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2024
Also this month: publication day for May’s latest book, an atlas of the asteroid Bennu, featuring May’s stereoscopic photography.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 4, 2023
Fortunately help came from Brian May, the Queen guitarist who also has a PhD in astronomy and specializes in stereoscopic imaging, which replicates how human eyes perceive surrounding space in three dimensions.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2023
But now the great moment had come—the greatest, Darwin Bonaparte had time to reflect, as he moved among his instruments, the greatest since his taking of the famous all-howling stereoscopic feely of the gorillas’ wedding.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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