multocularadj.

Brit.

/mʌlˈtɒkjᵿlə/, U.S.

/ˌməlˈtɑkjələr/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: multi- comb. form, -ocular comb. form.

Etymology: < multi- comb. form + -ocular comb. form.

1. Having many eyes or ommatidia. In later use frequently figurative. Now rare.

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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having an eye or eyes > having many eyes

multocular1670

polyommatous1864

1670 S. Gott Divine Hist. Genesis World 368 The Eys of some Insects are not Movable, and then they are Multocular, as well as many of them Multipedous.

1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. viii. iii. 401 Flies, &c. are Multocular, having as many Eyes as there are Perforations in their Corneæ.

1792 H. Brooke Poet. Wks. (ed. 3) II. v. 109 These creatures, though, in appearance, they have but two eyes, are really multocular.

1823 New Monthly Mag. 8 458 I saw I had attracted the remarks of some of the agents of that multocular monster—the Police.

1838 Visit Brit. Mus. 109 The Argus Pheasant, the configuration of the spots of whose plumage is calculated to recal..the classical fable relative to the metamorphosis of the multocular messenger of Juno.

1868 Intellectual Observer 12 453 Leptoplana. Multocular, the eyes clustered.

1911 F. F. Ayer Bell & Wing 1238 Right there you tattle what you are, Doublesome, multocular, Yet the merest minimus, Laughing loafing blunderbuss.

1998 V. A. Filin Videoecology vi. 262 It is rather hard to live constantly in stone jungles of the multocular monster, a megalopolis.

†2. Of an optical instrument: having two or more eyepieces. Obsolete.

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > magnification or magnifying instruments > [adjective] > microscope > types of microscope

screw-barrel1746

multocular1856

microspectroscopic1871

orthostereoscopic1892

electron microscopic1933

phase contrast1934

trinocular1960

1856 Lardner's Museum Sci. & Art IX. 86 Such is the principle upon which the multocular microscope of M. Nachet is based.

1872 G. R. Cutter tr. H. Frey Microscope & Microsc. Technol. 50 Only the weaker objectives can therefore be employed with such multocular microscopes.

1887 tr. K. W. Nägeli & S. Schwendener Microscope 48 For some time past English and French opticians have made multocular Microscopes, by which several persons are enabled to observe one and the same object simultaneously.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	multocular
释义	multocularadj. Brit. /mʌlˈtɒkjᵿlə/, U.S. /ˌməlˈtɑkjələr/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: multi- comb. form, -ocular comb. form. Etymology: < multi- comb. form + -ocular comb. form. 1. Having many eyes or ommatidia. In later use frequently figurative. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having an eye or eyes > having many eyes multocular1670 polyommatous1864 1670 S. Gott Divine Hist. Genesis World 368 The Eys of some Insects are not Movable, and then they are Multocular, as well as many of them Multipedous. 1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. viii. iii. 401 Flies, &c. are Multocular, having as many Eyes as there are Perforations in their Corneæ. 1792 H. Brooke Poet. Wks. (ed. 3) II. v. 109 These creatures, though, in appearance, they have but two eyes, are really multocular. 1823 New Monthly Mag. 8 458 I saw I had attracted the remarks of some of the agents of that multocular monster—the Police. 1838 Visit Brit. Mus. 109 The Argus Pheasant, the configuration of the spots of whose plumage is calculated to recal..the classical fable relative to the metamorphosis of the multocular messenger of Juno. 1868 Intellectual Observer 12 453 Leptoplana. Multocular, the eyes clustered. 1911 F. F. Ayer Bell & Wing 1238 Right there you tattle what you are, Doublesome, multocular, Yet the merest minimus, Laughing loafing blunderbuss. 1998 V. A. Filin Videoecology vi. 262 It is rather hard to live constantly in stone jungles of the multocular monster, a megalopolis. †2. Of an optical instrument: having two or more eyepieces. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > magnification or magnifying instruments > [adjective] > microscope > types of microscope screw-barrel1746 multocular1856 microspectroscopic1871 orthostereoscopic1892 electron microscopic1933 phase contrast1934 trinocular1960 1856 Lardner's Museum Sci. & Art IX. 86 Such is the principle upon which the multocular microscope of M. Nachet is based. 1872 G. R. Cutter tr. H. Frey Microscope & Microsc. Technol. 50 Only the weaker objectives can therefore be employed with such multocular microscopes. 1887 tr. K. W. Nägeli & S. Schwendener Microscope 48 For some time past English and French opticians have made multocular Microscopes, by which several persons are enabled to observe one and the same object simultaneously. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1670
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