Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An optical instrument with two eyepieces used to impart a three-dimensional effect to two photographs of the same scene taken at slightly different angles.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument resembling a catheter with a bell-like extremity, used in the diagnosis of stone in the bladder or of bullets and other foreign substances in the body.
- noun An optical instrument illustrating the phenomena of binocularvision, and serving to produce from two nearly similar pictures of an object the effect of a single picture with the appearance of relief and solidity belonging to ordinary vision.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An optical instrument for giving to pictures the appearance of solid forms, as seen in nature. It combines in one, through a bending of the rays of light, two pictures, taken for the purpose from points of view a little way apart. It is furnished with two eyeglasses, and by refraction or reflection the pictures are superimposed, so as to appear as one to the observer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun an
instrument used forviewing pairs ofstereoscopic photographs
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an optical device for viewing stereoscopic photographs
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Examples
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"The first effect of looking at a good photograph through the stereoscope is a surprise such as no painting ever produced," Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote in 1859.
Are 19th Century Stereographs The Modern-Day GIF? The Huffington Post 2012
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"The first effect of looking at a good photograph through the stereoscope is a surprise such as no painting ever produced," Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote in 1859.
Are 19th Century Stereographs The Modern-Day GIF? The Huffington Post 2012
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The first effect of looking at a good photograph through the stereoscope is a surprise such as no painting ever produced.
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When shown on the device called a stereoscope or seen through glasses that polarize light, the two images blend in one picture that seems to have depth.
EzineArticles 2010
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"The first effect of looking at a good photograph through the stereoscope is a surprise such as no painting ever produced," the essayist Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote in 1859.
Gizmodo Bob Zeller 2010
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In the first place, the kind of stereoscope to be used must tend to modify the mental impression; and secondly, the _amount_ of reduction from the size of the original has a considerable influence on the final result.
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He'd also explained how his stereoscope worked by teaching me how to view stereo pairs without the scope.
The New York Public Library: New Perspectives on Old Perspectives: How an Art Project Helped the NYPL Put Its 3D Stereograph Collection in Your Hands The New York Public Library 2012
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The effect was more jarring than through a stereoscope but no less magic.
Are 19th Century Stereographs The Modern-Day GIF? The Huffington Post 2012
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The result was more jarring and more shallow than through a stereoscope but no less magic.
The New York Public Library: New Perspectives on Old Perspectives: How an Art Project Helped the NYPL Put Its 3D Stereograph Collection in Your Hands The New York Public Library 2012
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The effect was more jarring than through a stereoscope but no less magic.
Are 19th Century Stereographs The Modern-Day GIF? The Huffington Post 2012
brtom commented on the word stereoscope
Flat I see, then think distance, near, far, flat I see, east, back. Ah, see now. Falls back suddenly, frozen in stereoscope.
Joyce, Ulysses, 3
December 30, 2006