stereograph

noun

ste·​reo·​graph ˈster-ē-ə-ˌgraf 

ˈstir-

: a pair of stereoscopic pictures or a picture composed of two superposed stereoscopic images that gives a three-dimensional effect when viewed with a stereoscope or special spectacles

stereograph transitive verb

Examples of stereograph in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There are also 36 stereographs. —Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023

Some literary elites were alarmed by the rise of the stereograph. —Clive Thompson, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017

One entrepreneur even envisioned using the stereograph to do remote shopping. —Clive Thompson, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017

Industry needed photographs for promotion, but post-Civil War industrialization so clearly made America an important power that people treasured stereographs of fields overgrown by technical apparatus. —Vicki Goldberg, New York Times, 6 July 2017

One popular option was the stereograph, a type of 3-D photo. —Lisa Kalis, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2017

Word History

Etymology

International Scientific Vocabulary

First Known Use

1859, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

stereograph

noun

ste·​reo·​graph -ˌgraf 

: a pair of stereoscopic pictures or a picture composed of two superposed stereoscopic images that gives a three-dimensional effect when viewed with a stereoscope or special glasses