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saccade
English
Etymology
From French saccade.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??k??d/
Noun
saccade (plural saccades)
- (rare) A sudden jerking movement.
- A rapid jerky movement of the eye (voluntary or involuntary) from one focus to another.
- 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:
- He added the bill with a single saccade of his pulsing eyes.
- 2000, Tim Radford, The Guardian, 21 Nov 2000:
- Then 130 milliseconds or thousandths of a second later, each made a "saccade" - an extremely fast eye movement - to roughly where the ball was likely to bounce.
- 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:
- The act of checking a horse quickly with a single strong pull of the reins.
- (music) The sounding of two violin strings together by using a sudden strong pressure of the bow.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
saccade (third-person singular simple present saccades, present participle saccading, simple past and past participle saccaded)
- (of the eye) To make a rapid jerking movement to focus elsewhere.
See also
- eyetracking
- scanpath
Anagrams
- Cascade, cascade
French
Etymology
From saquer or its Spanish cognate sacar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa.kad/
Noun
saccade f (plural saccades)
- a jerk (jerking movement)
- a rapid jerky movement of the eye (voluntary or involuntary) from one focus to another
- the act of checking a horse quickly with a single strong pull of the reins
Derived terms
- ronfler par saccades
Verb
saccade
- first-person singular present indicative of saccader
- third-person singular present indicative of saccader
- first-person singular present subjunctive of saccader
- third-person singular present subjunctive of saccader
- second-person singular imperative of saccader
Further reading
- “saccade” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- accédas, cascade, cascadé
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microsaccade
English
Etymology
micro +? saccade
Noun
microsaccade (plural microsaccades)
- A small, jerky eye movement that is a part of normal vision when fixating on an image, which seems to play a role in visual perception.
Related terms
- saccade
- macrosaccade
Derived terms
- microsaccadic
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