saccade
See also: saccadé
English
WOTD – 16 July 2011
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /səˈkɑːd/
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
sudden jerk
rapid jerky movement of the eye
act of checking a horse with a single pull of the reins
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
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sakad/
Noun
saccade f (plural saccades)
Verb
saccade
Further reading
- “saccade” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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