binocular
- adjective
- /bɪˈnɒkjʊlər/
- The disadvantages of the endoscope include a loss of binocular vision and depth perception, but these drawbacks are easily overcome with experience.
- binocular vision
- binocular disparity
- binocular depth perception
Got out of the pool, took a shower, dried off and then completely lost binocular vision for three days.
- Got out of the pool, took a shower, dried off and then completely lost binocular vision for three days.
- They'd plunk in two glass plates that were photographs taken from the plane and there was a binocular like imaging arrangement.
- Those type of binocular vision issues can be trained again through the training of the communication between the brain and those muscles.
Examples
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Depth perception relies on binocular vision, the ability to focus on one object with both eyes and fuse the image.
Academic text (1995) -
Upright bipedalism, opposable thumb, stereoscopic binocular vision, all really good.
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Got out of the pool, took a shower, dried off and then completely lost binocular vision for three days.
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Those type of binocular vision issues can be trained again through the training of the communication between the brain and those muscles.
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Grace is, at this moment, swimming closer to me through the binocular lenses.
Fiction book (1996) -
Although eye movements were recorded from one eye, viewing was binocular.
Academic text (2013) -
Viewing was binocular, and recordings were sampled from the right eye at 1,000 Hz.
Academic text (2018) -
The binocular vision of the child improved after wearing special glasses.
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To accurately judge the distance, he relied on his binocular vision.
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The doctor explained that binocular vision is essential for depth perception.
Compounds
- Specialized
Seeing with both eyes helps you judge distance and see more around you
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Binocular is made from the parts bi- 'two' and ocular 'eye', the same bi- you find in bicycle. So, something binocular uses both eyes at once, which is why binocular vision helps you judge how far things are.