Meaning

One who estimates or judges based on visual inspection rather than detailed analysis..

Definitions by Sense

1. One who estimates or judges based on visual inspection rather than detailed analysis.
2. A voyeur or inquisitive person.
3. An investigator who watches for signs of anything unusual or suspicious.
4. (pool) A secret accomplice who surreptitiously watches the competition and interferes by causing a distraction to prevent the opponent from getting a good shot.
5. Someone who stares at another in order to intimidate them.
6. Something eye-catching or worth noticing.

Example Sentences

Eyeballers reject the more structured approaches to analysis that break down the data into small units and, from the perspective of the eyeballers, destroy the wholeness and some of the meaningfulness of the data.

In my opinion, it is pretty obvious to the eyeballer of a time series chart whether a market is in a trending regime or a range-trading regime and, as we shall see, how one takes advantage of these regimes can differ between methodology and time frames anyway.

Now a master eyeballer, I could accurately transpose almost any food into the equivalent value of another.

Normally I wouldn't just eyeball it like this, though a pond does allow and even encourage the eyeballer.

'Anyway, I'm no eyeballer, Miss Ruth.'

Well, in fact most of the time it ain't so bad, and even kind of sightly when you look at me, an old guy writing poetry in the waiting room at Hancock Airport, all these eyeballers that think I'm wigged or something.

Frankly, the police hoped for a rainy summer, for there were more eyeballers and agitators driving around trying to see how many Negroes were using the pools than there were people swimming.

Years of practice had taught us the art and a certified eyeballer can be staring at his feet and shoveling all day in a perfect frenzy. But all the while he is staring into the burnished pan of his shovel, which catches the reflection of a chrome hub cap whirling by on the road. And in that infinite glimpse he catches the spinning vision of a distant window behind his back, in the frame of which there is the flash of a polished doorknob reflecting around the edge of a doorway to capture on its rounded surface the distorted image of a woman removing her housecoat and putting on a brassiere.

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