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perspective glasses

perspective glasses is the plural of perspective glass.

Meaning of perspective glass

Noun

perspective glass (plural perspective glasses)

  1. A kind of early telescope.
    • The instrument was at first called Galileo's tube; the double eye-glass; the perspective; the trunk; the cylinder.1896, Thomas Nathaniel Orchard, The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost', London, New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 124
  2. (historical) An instrument for viewing an enlarged image of engraved prints or maps https://web.archive.org/web/20150424011800/http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/perspective-glass.

Questions about perspective glasses

What is perspective glasses the plural of?
Perspective glasses is the plural of perspective glass.

Words near perspective glasses in the dictionary

  1. perspectivalization
  2. perspectivation
  3. perspectivations
  4. perspective
  5. perspective glass
  6. perspective glasses
  7. perspectiveless
  8. perspectivelessness
  9. perspectively
  10. perspectives
  11. perspectivic

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