Encyclopedia > Monocular

Article Content

Monocular

A monocular is a tool to magnify the image of distant objects by passing it through a series of lenses and prisms. Volume and weight are less than half those of binoculars, making it easy to carry along.

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Fighter aircraft

... and by the end of the war almost all work on piston powered fighters had ended. In the 1950s, jet-engined fighter planes capable of supersonic flight were developed. ...