binocular

Borrowed from French binoculaire.

• IPA^(key): /bɪˈnɒkjʊlɚ/

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binocular (not comparable)

1. Using two eyes or viewpoints; especially, using two eyes or viewpoints to ascertain distance.

   a binocular microscope or telescope

   • 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:

     Most animals are binocular.

   • 2013 July 9, Joselle DiNunzio Kehoe, “Cognition, brains and Riemann”, in plus.maths.org‎^[1], retrieved 8 September 2013:

     our perception of distance arises from the geometry of binocular vision and our early learning seems based on calculating probabilities.

binocular (plural binoculars)

1. Attributive form of binoculars.
2. A pair of binoculars.
   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind‎^[2]:

     He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.

3. (dated) Any binocular glass, such as an opera glass, telescope, or microscope.

• binoculars

From bi- +‎ -n- +‎ ocular.

binocular m or f (plural binoculares)

1. binocular (using two eyes or viewpoints)

From binóculos +‎ -ar.

binocular (first-person singular present binoculo, first-person singular preterite binoculei, past participle binoculado)

1. to observe using binoculars

• “binocular”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “binocular”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French binoculaire.

binocular m or n (feminine singular binoculară, masculine plural binoculari, feminine/neuter plural binoculare)

1. binocular

From French binoculaire, from bini (“double”) and oculaire (“ocular”).

• IPA^(key): /binokuˈlaɾ/ [bi.no.kuˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: bi‧no‧cu‧lar

binocular m or f (masculine and feminine plural binoculares)

1. binocular

binocular m (plural binoculares)

1. (often in plural) binoculars

   Synonym: prismáticos

• “binocular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025