saccade
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See also: saccadé
English[edit]
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Noun[edit]
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 November 21, Tim Radford, The Guardian:
- 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.
- 2019, Ian McEwan, Machines Like Me, Jonathan Cape, page 23:
- He paused, looking at me intently, his black-flecked eyes scanning my face in quick saccades.
- 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.
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Translations[edit]
sudden jerk
rapid jerky movement of the eye
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act of checking a horse with a single pull of the reins
Verb[edit]
saccade (third-person singular simple present saccades, present participle saccading, simple past and past participle saccaded)
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From saquer or its Spanish cognate sacar.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
Verb[edit]
saccade
- inflection of saccader:
Further reading[edit]
- “saccade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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