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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 Innys,, →OCLC:
Most animals are binocular.
2013 July 9, Joselle DiNunzio Kehoe, “Cognition, brains and Riemann”, in plus.maths.org, retrieved 2013-09-08:
our perception of distance arises from the geometry of binocular vision and our early learning seems based on calculating probabilities.
1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind:
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.
