different between monocular vs trinocular

English

Etymology

mono- +? ocular

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /m??n?kj?l??/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /m?n??k.j?.l?(?)/, /?m?n??k.j?.l?(?)/

Adjective

monocular (not comparable)

1. Having one eye.
   • 1888, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

     ...one of his sparks alighted upon my eye and destroyed it making me a monocular ape;

2. Related to a monocle.
   • 1906, Amelia Barr, The Man Between

     You are not such a foolish woman as to like to be seen with Fred Mostyn, that little monocular snob, after the aristocratic, handsome Basil Stanhope.

4. Of any optical system suitable for use by one eye at a time.

Translations

Noun

monocular (plural monoculars)

1. (rare) A monocle.
   • 1906, Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

     The moony monocular set in his eye / Appeared to be scanning the Sweet Bye-and-Bye.

2. (retronym) A monocular telescope, as opposed to binoculars.

Anagrams

• colourman

Romanian

Etymology

From French monoculaire

Adjective

monocular m or n (feminine singular monocular?, masculine plural monoculari, feminine and neuter plural monoculare)

1. monocular

Declension

English

Etymology

By analogy with binocular; see tri-.

Adjective

trinocular (not comparable)

1. Using three points of vision, such as a microscope with two standard eyepieces and one camera eyepiece, or a camera rig with three cameras

   trinocular microscope

   trinocular stereovision

Related terms

• monocular

See also

• Not to be confused with trioculate or trinuclear.