cyclopean

• Appalled at the carnage, and what was intended to be his starring role therein, Algernon reached up to touch the fresnel lens of the steam ram's vast headlamp, a cyclopean orb vacant of reason. —  Challenging Destiny #18
• The solarium dome glares up at me like a cyclopean eye. —  Steele, Allen - [Near-Space 05] - A King of Infinite Space
• Speaking of cyclopean: I must somehow restrain myself from buying the following ... while I am sore tempted by monstrous tomes to contend with as it is. —  Ghost of a flea
• Babies stare longer at faces that have two eyes in the normal position than they do at those that have a cyclopean or a stacked-eyes configuration Early in the 20th century Gestalt ­psychologists started exploring the perceptual importance of symmetry Thus, the need for symmetry overrides the global tendency to see identical motion throughout the visual field —  Clipmarks | Live Clips
• The only form of the arch observed, is that called the cyclopean arch, which is made by one course of stones overlapping another, till the two walls meet, and a flat stone covers the space. —  Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History An address, delivered before the New York Historical Society, at its forty-second anniversary, 17th November 1846

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