saccade

See also: saccadé

English

WOTD – 16 July 2011

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French saccade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˈkɑːd/

Noun

saccade (plural saccades)

1. (rare) A sudden jerking movement.
2. 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.

3. The act of checking a horse quickly with a single strong pull of the reins.
4. (music) The sounding of two violin strings together by using a sudden strong pressure of the bow.

Derived terms

• antisaccade
• intersaccade
• microsaccade
• presaccade
• prosaccade
• saccadic
• saccadically
• saccadization
• saccadometer
• saccadometric
• saccadometry

 

Translations

sudden jerk

• Chinese:
• Finnish: nykäys, nykäisy
• French: saccade (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 突然のジャーク (totsuzen no jāku)
• Portuguese: tranco (pt) m
• Russian: внеза́пный рыво́к m (vnezápnyj ryvók)

rapid jerky movement of the eye

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 掃視／扫视 (zh) (sǎoshì), 扫视 (zh) (sǎoshì)

• Czech: sakáda f
• Dutch: saccade f
• Finnish: sakkadi
• French: saccade (fr) f
• German: Sakkade f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: szakkád
• Italian: saccade f
• Portuguese: movimento sacádico m
• Russian: сакка́да (ru) f (sakkáda), бы́строе скачкообра́зное движе́ние глаз n (býstroje skačkoobráznoje dvižénije glaz)
• Spanish: sacada (es) f, movimiento sacádico m

act of checking a horse with a single pull of the reins

• Finnish: vetäisy
• French: saccade (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: puxão (pt) m

music: sounding of two violin strings together

• Finnish: saccadé
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: сакка́да (ru) f (sakkáda)

Verb

1. (of the eye) To make a rapid jerking movement to focus elsewhere.

See also

• eyetracking
• scanpath

Anagrams

• Cascade, cascade

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French

Etymology

From saquer or its (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish cognate sacar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.kad/

Noun

saccade f (plural saccades)

1. a jerk (jerking movement)
2. a rapid jerky movement of the eye (voluntary or involuntary) from one focus to another
3. the act of checking a horse quickly with a single strong pull of the reins

Verb

saccade

1. first-person singular present indicative of saccader
2. third-person singular present indicative of saccader
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of saccader
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of saccader
5. second-person singular imperative of saccader

Further reading

• “saccade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• accédas, cascade, cascadé