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Monocle
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eyepiece
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments [syn: ocular ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Changing the eyepiece means changing the magnification. ▪ However, I have installed felt pads on the eyepieces of my microscope. ▪ Sofia concentrated on the eyepiece image and saw a table-shaped signal. ` See? ▪ The brighter ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The lens (or combination of lenses) at the eye end of a microscope or telescope by which the image is viewed.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
eyepiece \eye"piece`\ eye-piece \eye"-piece`\, n. (Opt.) The lens, or combination of lenses, at the eye end of a microscope, telescope or other optical instrument, through which the image formed by the mirror or object glass is viewed. Syn: ocular. Collimating ...
Usage examples of eyepiece.
He also caught sight of a helicopter being rolled out onto the helo deck aft as he pulled his eye away from the eyepiece, snapped down his eyepatch and lowered the periscope.
He took a multiradiation tester from its padded carrying case and held it before the eyepiece that Gulyas had been trying to look through.
He could feel the torn, knurled rim that had held the small lens of the eyepiece.
Perhaps if he were given a microscope, a good compound microscope with a variety of eyepieces and an ample stage, he might take great pleasure in some of the smaller forms, the rhizopods, the rotifera, the parasites of lice themselves .
After a request to actually see stromal cells, in no time the scientist was hunched over the eyepiece of a microscope and projecting fuchsia-colored slides of pulsing cardiac tissue onto an overhead screen.
Daniel Hoveler, who was nothing if not an earnest researcher, raised strained eyes from the eyepiece of his microstage, then got up from his chair to stand beside his workbench.
The masks had two round eyepieces that combined with the long, snoutlike corrugated rubber breathing tube to give the wearers an unhuman appearance.
Harry Talbot finished telling them about the Boogeymen, Sam leaned forward on the high stool to the telescope eyepiece.
Vittoria aligned the scope with one of the canisters, peered into the eyepiece, and calibrated some knobs.
I flick off its endcaps with my thumbnail as I raise it to peer through the eyepiece.
He positioned it over the neck bones of the deformed skeleton, peered through the eyepieces, made a few adjustments, then stepped back.
Harry worked with a series of eyepieces, adjusting the power on the scope and trying to sharpen the focus, until he had pulled in so close to the window that the lens was filled by the narrow slot between the drapes.
By the time I had it to my shoulder the elephants were in among the trucks and all was confusion, my impression blurred by the din of shots and squeals of rage, the camera whirring and everything seen through the eyepiece.
He peered into the eyepiece, across the snowscape to the coordinates Berrier had indicated.
Gunn set the distance on the clinometer and then sighted through the eyepiece, measuring the length of the shadowy object under the water.