field glasses

field glass

n. often field glasses A portable binocular telescope without prisms used especially outdoors for viewing distant objects: used a pair of field glasses to watch the marsh birds.

field glasses

pl n another name for binoculars

Field glasses

Essentially two small telescopes (one for each eye) on one frame. Field glasses have been displaced by binoculars.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

field glasses - an optical instrument designed for simultaneous use by both eyesbinoculars, opera glasseseyepiece, ocular - combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instrumentsoptical instrument - an instrument designed to aid visionplural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one

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