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Definition: Eyepiece |
EyepieceNoun1. Combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "eyepiece" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1927. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Physics | Optical system(placed near the eyes)through which a magnified image is observed ; in an optical instrument the lens or lens system to which the observer applies his eye when using the instrument. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: EyepieceSynonym: ocular (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: eye-piece (physics). |
Crosswords: Eyepiece |
| English words defined with "eyepiece": Aplanatic telescope, Astronomical telescope ♦ Compound microscope ♦ Erecting eyepiece ♦ Field lens ♦ graticule ♦ Huyghenian eyepiece ♦ jeweler's loupe ♦ loupe ♦ Microscope stand ♦ Negative eyepiece, Newtonian reflector, Newtonian telescope ♦ Object glass, Optigraph, Orthoscopic ♦ Pancratic, peep sight, Positive eyepiece ♦ reflecting telescope, reflector, refracting telescope, reticle, Reticulated micrometer, reticule ♦ telescope sight, Terrestrial telescope ♦ Universal instrument. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "eyepiece": CARTOON DESIGNER, Cassegrain telescope ♦ face right, filar micrometer ♦ prismatic telescope ♦ Schmidt-type magnetic field balance ♦ tilting level. (references) |
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High Tech |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Pictured is a physician using a remotely controlled endoscope. He is looking through a microscope-like eyepiece to monitor his actions while using small brushes and knives to take a biopsy. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |
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| "Eyepiece" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Eyepiece" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 32 | 61,292 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "eyepiece": Campani's eyepiece ♦ Collimating eyepiece ♦ Erecting eyepiece ♦ Huyghenian eyepiece ♦ negative eyepiece ♦ positive eyepiece ♦ Ramsden's eyepiece. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "eyepiece": objective-eyepiece. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "eyepiece"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | syze (barnacle, eyeglass, eyeglasses, glass, glasses, goggles, lens, ocular, specs, spectacles). (various references) | |
Arabic | العينية عدسة المجهر (ocular). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | окуляр (glass, ocular). (various references) | |
Chinese | 目镜. (various references) | |
Czech | okulár (ocular). (various references) | |
Danish | okular (ocular). (various references) | |
Dutch | oculair (ocular). (various references) | |
Finnish | okulaari (eye-piece). (various references) | |
French | oculaire (eye-piece). (various references) | |
German | Okular (ocular). (various references) | |
Greek | προσοφθάλμιος φακός μιρκοσκοπίου (eye-piece, ocular), προσοφθάλμιος φακός (eye-piece, ocular), προσοφθάλμιος (eye-piece, ocular), προσοφθάλμιο (eye-piece, ocular), οφθαλμικός (eye-piece, ocular, ophthalmic). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szemlencse (crystalline lens). (various references) | |
Indonesian | lensa mata. (various references) | |
Italian | oculare (ocular). (various references) | |
Korean | 접안경. (various references) | |
Manx | sooill [f] (eye, hole of strap, ocellus, sheath of bud), sooill (eye, hole of strap, ocellus, sheath of bud). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eyepieceay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ocular (ocular), óculo (spyglass). (various references) | |
Romanian | ocular (eye, eye-glass, ocular, optic, optical). (various references) | |
Russian | окуляр (ocular, viewer). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | okular (eyeglass, ocular). (various references) | |
Spanish | ocular (ocular). (various references) | |
Swedish | okular (ocular). (various references) | |
Turkish | oküler (ocular), mercek (bulls eye, condenser, condensing lens, eye lense, glass, lens, object lens, objective). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thị kính. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "eyepiece": eyepieces. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "eyepiece" (pronounced ī"pē's) |
| 3 | -p ē' s | altarpiece, centerpiece, crosspiece, masterpiece, mouthpiece, showpiece, timepiece. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-e-i-p-y" | |
-3 letters: piece. | |
-4 letters: cepe, epee, epic, pice, pyic, yipe. | |
-5 letters: cee, cep, eye, ice, icy, pec, pee, pic, pie, pye, yep, yip. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-e-i-p-y" | |
+1 letter: eyepieces. | |
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