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binoculars | American Dictionary

binoculars
plural noun
us/bəˈnɑk·jə·lərz, bɑɪ-/
a device for making objects that are far away appear nearer and larger, and made of two attached tubes that you hold up to your eyes to look through:
a pair of binoculars

Examples of binoculars

binoculars
With the help of binoculars, bird watchers may see and identify birds beyond the range of normal human eyesight.
Observers were concealed on the ground in a position to view as much of the focal tree canopy as possible through binoculars.
Through the binoculars the first-person narrator sees a beautiful woman whom he thinks he knows.
For the remaining five adult trees and 20 juveniles, the number of leaves produced and herbivory was estimated using binoculars.
A look through the binoculars confirms that he is.
The narrator does something more and observes the approaching yacht through his binoculars.
Observations were made from a distance with binoculars and a telescope.
Observations were made using 8 x 40 or 10 x 40 binoculars.
We used binoculars if necessary for the observation and counted the number of marked trees and shrubs bearing mature fruits.
It was not only light that illuminated and empowered human vision, but also binoculars, the telescope and the theodolite.
Monitoring was by visual observation only, using binoculars.
Neither the narrator, who is, of course, using binoculars on the ship, nor the implicit author, are working against this subjectivization.
Observations were made using binoculars from concealed positions that enabled views of as much of the focal tree canopy as possible.
Using binoculars we also scanned higher branches of trees.
He examined the images by using a pair of "binoculars" and was able to control the position of the camera by using footpedals.
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