stereoscope

See also: stéréoscope

English

This painting by Norman Rockwell in 1922 depicts a boy using a stereoscope.

This is another stereoscope.

Etymology

From stereo- +‎ -scope.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: stĕrēōskōp, IPA^(key): /ˈstɛɹioʊ̯skoʊ̯p/

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Noun

stereoscope (plural stereoscopes)

2. An instrument used for viewing pairs of stereoscopic photographs (stereographs).
   • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 17:

     The idea has been repeated under different aspects; sometimes, possibly, it has been repeated too often; but different aspects in such a case do help, as in a stereoscope, to give solidity to the thing seen.

Derived terms

• stereoscopist

Related terms

• stereography (making the stereograms)
• stereoscopy (using the stereoscope)
• stereoview
• stereovision

Translations

an instrument used for viewing pairs of stereoscopic photographs

• Catalan: estereoscopi m
• French: stéréoscope (fr) m
• Hungarian: sztereoszkóp (hu)
• Spanish: estereoscopio m