Helen Fenton

Binocle: Definition and part of speech

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Binocle

  1. n. A dioptric telescope, fitted with two tubes joining, so as to enable a person to view an object with both eyes at once; a double-barreled field glass or an opera glass.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Binocular: Definition and part of speech

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Binocular

  1. n. A binocular glass, whether opera glass, telescope, or microscope.
  2. a. Having two eyes.
  3. a. Pertaining to both eyes; employing both eyes at once; as, binocular vision.
  4. a. Adapted to the use of both eyes; as, a binocular microscope or telescope.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Binomial: Definition and part of speech

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Binomial

  1. a. Having two names; — used of the system by which every animal and plant receives two names, the one indicating the genus, the other the species, to which it belongs.
  2. n. An expression consisting of two terms connected by the sign plus (+) or minus (-); as, a + b, or 7 – 3.
  3. a. Consisting of two terms; pertaining to binomials; as, a binomial root.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Binoxalate: Definition and part of speech

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Binoxalate

  1. n. A salt having two equivalents of oxalic acid to one of the base; an acid oxalate.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.