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viewer

viewer

20 4.8
A device with a lens to look at photo slides
  • noun
  • /ˈvjuːər/
  • Archaic
translation icon : visor
  • As you study your slides on the viewer, you can look for connecting words.
  • stereo viewer
  • viewer experience

Examples

  • With the slides arranged by subject on your viewer, you can start to write the script.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Cahill, at his station, is looking through a viewer while grasping a control stick in one hand.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • With the ability to view images, this compact storage viewer was a nice alternative to carrying a laptop computer.

    Academic text (2005)
  • The crop concentrates the viewer's eye on the primary subject of the image.

    Academic text (2009)
  • The book requires the viewer to pace through these images while holding them, further layering the haptic engagement.

    Academic text (2012)
  • The other, somewhat more equipment-intensive way is to use an old stereopticon card viewer, or the functional equivalent.

    Academic text (1999)
  • This version of the Enterprise-E bridge uses a "holographic viewer" in place of the traditional main viewscreen.

  • You can see the details of each slide clearly when you use a viewer designed for that purpose.

  • Using a viewer allows you to examine photographic slides in a larger format.

  • The teacher brought a viewer to class so that everyone could see the slides more easily.

How Complex

projector
74 3.0
slide projector
  • Archaic
3 3.2
viewer
  • Archaic
20 4.8
lightbox
  • Specialized
1 3.7

Surface Forms

viewer singular
viewers plural

Morphology

viewer = view (transparent) = view + er

Instrument noun formed by the productive suffix '-er' on the verb 'view'; the meaning 'device for looking' follows standard agent/instrument nominalization.

Etymology

Viewer is made of view 'to see' and -er 'one who' or 'thing that does'. So a viewer can be a small machine or tool that lets you look closely at slides or film frames.