binocular vision

English

Noun

binocular vision (uncountable)

1. (physiology) A vision system in which two eyes work together to produce a unified field of view which is wider and stereoscopic, and in which objects can be more readily discerned.
   • 2001 June 24, J. Madeleine Nash, “Fertile Minds”, in Time:

     Around the age of four months, the cortex begins to refine the connections needed for depth perception and binocular vision.

Synonyms

• binocularity

Translations

a vision system in which two eyes work together to produce a unified field of view

• Irish: amharc déshúileach m
• Japanese: 立体視 (りったいし, rittaishi)

See also

• stereovision

References

• “binocular vision”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.