Saccade

Quick meaning: Saccade is a noun meaning The act of checking a horse quickly with a single strong pull of the reins.

Meaning

The act of checking a horse quickly with a single strong pull of the reins.

More Meanings

1. (music) The sounding of two violin strings together by using a sudden strong pressure of the bow.
2. (of the eye, intransitive) To make a rapid jerking movement to focus elsewhere.
3. (ophthalmology, technology, science of reading) A rapid movement of the eye (either voluntary or involuntary) from one focus to another. (Often described as a jerky movement, but this word denotes all such quick eye movements, which happen continually, not just exaggerated or weird ones, and not nystagmus.)
4. (rare) Any sudden jerking movement.

Example Sentences

He added the bill with a single saccade of his pulsing eyes.

He paused, looking at me intently, his black-flecked eyes scanning my face in quick saccades.

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.

Word Forms

• saccades
• saccading
• saccaded

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