stereoscope
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- noun
- /ˈstɛrɪəˌskoʊp/
- Specialized
:
estereoscopio
- The children were amazed by the images they saw through the old stereoscope at the museum.
- see a stereoscope
Examples
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Pugh's letter implies that few Georgians had ever seen a stereoscope, "just now becoming popular in Georgia," and that fair attendees asked him "foolish questions" about using the viewer, which merged the two side-by-side images of a stereograph so they appeared to be three-dimensional.
Academic text (2008) -
Hampton arranged its exhibition, as captured in a souvenir stereoscope card from the fair, in an orderly fashion, with well-dressed hosts milling about awaiting the inquiries of visitors.
Blog text (22) -
First, focus on the subject with the stereoscope and then refocus through your camera.
Academic text (2010) -
The stereoscope and stack of stereo cards were standard equipment in the Victorian parlor.
Academic text (2001) -
This 1910 image of a textile factory in South Manchester, Connecticut, was meant to be viewed through a stereoscope.
Academic text (2002) -
These stereoscopes, also called "penny-poppers," were similar to contemporary quarter-fed peep shows.
Blog text (15) -
The earliest one I have seen is of Sir David Brewster, inventor of the handheld stereoscope, made by Moffat, of Edinburgh, Scotland, in the 1850s.
Academic text (1998) -
January: The New York Public Library launches the Stereogranimator, a tool enabling users to make GIFs of vintage stereographs in the library's collection to create an illusion of the 3D experience of viewing through a stereoscope.
Blog text (15) -
To see the three-dimensional effect, you need to look through the stereoscope carefully.
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Using a stereoscope, she admired the landscapes captured in the vintage photographs.
How Three-Dimensional
Surface Forms
Morphology
stereoscope = stereo + scope
The word is built transparently from the combining form stereo- and the form scope meaning a viewing instrument, but these classical elements may not be fully familiar to all learners.
Etymology
Stereoscope comes from two Greek parts: stereo meaning 'solid' or 'three-dimensional' and scope meaning 'to look', as in microscope and telescope. So a stereoscope is a device for 'looking' at two pictures in a way that makes them look three-dimensional.