stereo-, stere-

An instrument through which pictures of the same object, taken from different angles, are seen through separate eyepieces to produce the illusion of a single image having three dimensions.

1. Involving, producing, or resembling the effects of seeing something as three-dimensional.
2. A reference to a three-dimensional vision or any of various processes and devices for giving the illusion of depth from two-dimensional images or reproductions; such as, of a photograph or motion picture that has depth, as well as height and width.

Stereopsis, or stereoscopic vision, is believed to have an origin in the anatomic and physiological structures of the retinas of the eyes and the visual cortex.

It is present in normal binocular vision because the eyes view objects in space from two points, so that the retinal image patterns of the same object points in space are slightly different in each of the eyes.

1. A three-dimensional vision produced by the fusion of two slightly different views of a scene on each retina of the eyes.
2. The viewing or appearance of objects in or as if in three dimensions.

A directed response of a motile organism in continuous contact with a solid surface.

1. A reference to people who have set ideas about what someone or something is like: The author's plots are predictable and her characters are stereotyped individuals.
2. Etymology: from Greek stereos, "solid, three-dimensional."

Since "stereotypers" were used to print the same thing over and over, the word came to mean any excessively repeated statements or ideas.

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