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monocular, a.|məˈnɒkjʊlə(r)|
Also (in sense 2) mono-ocular.
[f. late L. monocul-us (see monoculus) + -ar. Cf. F. monoculaire.]
1. a. Having only one eye, or the use of only one eye. Now rare.
1640Howell Dodona's Gr. 86 Who going to cut downe an ancient white Hauthorne-Tree..had some of the prickles flew into his eye, and made him Monocular. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 82, I could never find any Animal that was monocular. 1696E. Lhwyd in Phil. Trans. XXVII. 464 He had..catch'd Monocular Trouts. 1767Barrington ibid. LVII. 207 Monocular fish, which are said by Giraldus Cambrensis to be found in the lakes of Snowden. 1886R. F. Burton Arab. Nts. (abr. ed.) I. 90 Had we escaped the mortification of those monocular Kalandars. 1887Brit. Med. Jrnl. 7 May 995 A small monocular fœtus.
b. quasi-n. A one-eyed person.
1886R. F. Burton Arab. Nts. (abr. ed.) I. 82 [She] returned with three monoculars.
2. a. Of or pertaining to one eye only; adapted to one eye.
1858Edin. Rev. CVIII. 439 Monocular vision, or vision with a single eye. 1874Van Buren Dis. Genit. Org. 87 These varieties of ophthalmia..are rarely mono-ocular. 1878Carpenter in Encycl. Brit. XVI. 274/1 By the insertion of a suitably constructed binocular eye-piece into the body of any ordinary monocular microscope. 1891Syd. Soc. Lex., Monocular bandage, a bandage applied to one eye only. 190219th Cent. Apr. 605 It is still more rare for it [sc. colour-blindness] to be monocular.
fig.1890J. Martineau Seat Author. Relig. 163 Such a monocular phenomenon is the orthodoxy of the Church. 1923Public Opinion 8 June 542/3 The bane of cancer research has been its monocular myopia.
b. Wearing a monocle. rare.
1903G. B. Shaw Man & Superman p. xxiii, These college passmen, these well groomed monocular Algys and Bobbies.
c. quasi-n. A glass, esp. a field-glass, in the use of which only one eye is employed in viewing an object.
1936British Birds XXX. 39 It was only when I turned my monocular on the bird in the water that I realized it was a Red-legged Partridge. 1959Chambers's Encycl. IX. 385/2 The modern microscope usually has interchangeable bodies, making it possible to use the same stand with monocular or binocular. 1971D. Whillans in C. Bonington Annapurna South Face v. 58 There was a monocular in the tent which I focused on the dark, moving shape.
Hence monocuˈlarity, monocular condition; moˈnocularly adv., with the use of one eye only.
1857Nat. Mag. II. 276 Thieving may not unnaturally be assigned to a mental strabismus or monocularity. 1880W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 177 If under these circumstances the object thus monocularly seen were translocated outwardly, we should have a complete verification. 1881Carpenter Microsc. §36 (ed. 6) 39 No one who has only thus worked monocularly can appreciate the guidance derivable from binocular vision. 1972Sci. Amer. Aug. 86/3 An insect disguised as a leaf may be invisible monocularly but stand out in a different depth plane from real leaves when it is viewed stereoscopically. |