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.

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