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Definition: Stereoscope |
StereoscopeNoun1. An optical device for viewing stereoscopic photographs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stereoscope" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references) |
Note: Stereoscope \Ste"re*o*scope\, noun. [Stereo- -scope.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | An instrument used in stereoscopy; special type of viewer designed to accept a stereoscopic pair of pictures so that they can be viewed as a single image in three-dimensional relief. (references) |
Medicine | An instrument used in stereoscopy ; special type of viewer designed to accept a stereoscopic pair of pictures so that they can be viewed as a single image in three-dimensional relief. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Stereoscope |
| English words defined with "stereoscope": Megalethoscope ♦ Pseudoscope ♦ Stereograph, stereoscopic, Stereoscopical ♦ Telestereoscope. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "stereoscope": brewster, Brewster stereoscope, Brewster-Holme stereoscope, Brewster's stereoscope ♦ FIELD-MAP EDITOR ♦ lenticular stereoscope ♦ parallax bar, prismatic stereoscope ♦ refracting stereoscope ♦ stereomicrometer. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "stereoscope": Telestereoscope. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Using a stereoscope to bring images on adjacent photographs into coincidence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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| "Stereoscope" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Stereoscope" is used about 5 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% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "stereoscope": Brewster stereoscope ♦ Brewster's stereoscope ♦ lenticular stereoscope ♦ prismatic stereoscope ♦ refracting stereoscope ♦ stereoscope cover. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stereoscope | 46 |
bruguiere stereoscope | 5 |
caricature stereoscope | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "stereoscope"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | stereoskop. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الاستريوسكوب المجسام. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стереоскоп. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | stereoskop. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | stereoskop (stereoscopic viewer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stereoscoop (stereo pair, stereoscopic pair, stereoscopic viewer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | stereoskooppi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | stéréoscope (stereoscopic viewer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Stereoskop (stereoscopic viewer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στερεοσκόπιο (solid bifocals, stereoscopic viewer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sztereoszkóp. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | stereoscopio (stereo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 立"鏡 , 実"鏡 , ステップ関数 (steady, stealth, stenographer, step function, stereo, stereo camera, stereo record, stereophonic, stereotape, stereotype, stereovision). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | りったいきょう, ステレオスコープ , じったいきょう. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | stereoscoip. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ereoscopestay estereoscópio (stereoscopic viewer, stereoscopy). (various references) stereoscop. (various references) стереоскоп. (various references) stereoskop. (various references) estereoscopio (stereoscopic viewer). (various references) stereoskop. (various references) stereoskop. (various references) стереоскоп (stereo), стереотруба. (various references) kính nhìn nổi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "stereoscope": stereoscopes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "stereoscope" (pronounced 'Ste"re*o*scope'): Aeroscope, AEthrioscope, Alethoscope, Altiscope, Anamorphoscope, Anemoscope, Angioscope, Anorthoscope, Astroscope, Auriscope, Baroscope, Ceraunoscope, Chromascope, Chromatoscope, Chronoscope, Cyclonoscope, Cycloscope, Cymoscope, Debuscope, Echoscope, Galvanoscope, Gasoscope, gastroscope, gyroscope, horoscope, hygroscope, Kaleidoscope, Leucoscope, Lychnoscope, Manoscope, Meatoscope, Megalethoscope, Megascope, Melanoscope, Meteoroscope, Metroscope, Microspectroscope, Mutoscope, Myrioscope, Nephoscope, Niloscope, Opeidoscope, Ophthalmoscope, Orthoscope, oscilloscope, Otheoscope, Otoscope, Ozonoscope, Pantascope, Periodoscope. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-o-o-p-r-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: creosotes, proteoses. | |
-3 letters: creosote, prosects, proteose, respects, scepters, sceptres, scoopers, scooters, secretes, sesterce, specters, spectres, steepers, stoopers, topcross. | |
-4 letters: coopers, cooters, copters, corpses, corsets, costers, creeses, cresset, escorts, operose, peeress, pesters, poetess, poorest, posters, precess, presets, prestos, process, prosect, recepts, reposes, resects, respect, respots, roscoes, scepter, sceptre, scooper, scooter, scoters, scroops, secrete, secrets. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-o-o-p-r-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: stereoscopes. | |
+2 letters: electroscopes, stereoscopies. | |
+4 letters: cooperativeness, counterresponse, electrodeposits, electrophoreses, electrophoresis, overcompensates. | |
+5 letters: counterresponses, stereomicroscope. | |
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