Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A rapid intermittent eye movement, as that which occurs when the eyes fix on one point after another in the visual field.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In the manège, a violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins suddenly and with one pull.
- n. In violin-playing, a firm pressure of the bow on the strings, which crowds them down so that two or three can be sounded at once.
Wiktionary
- n. rare A sudden jerking movement.
- n. A rapid jerky movement of the eye (voluntary or involuntary) from one focus to another.
- n. The act of checking a horse quickly with a single strong pull of the reins.
- n. music The sounding of two violin strings together by using a sudden strong pressure of the bow.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Man.) A sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a rapid, jerky movement of the eyes between positions of rest
- n. an abrupt spasmodic movement
Etymologies
- From French saccade. (Wiktionary)
- French, twitch, from Old French, from Old North French saqiuer, to pull, from sac, sack; see sac. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The brain sends instructions to the eyes, the eyes respond with movement (called a saccade).”
“That can be attributed to something called a saccade—a fast movement of the eye that lasts between 20 and 200 milliseconds.”
“Nishigaki and Arai have turned to blind spot position and the so-called saccade response for their biometric.”
“In the 'saccade' condition while foveating one of the sample dots the horizontal separation between the dots corresponded directly with eccentricity.”
“For the 'saccade' (solid line with circles) condition, the eccentricity corresponded directly with the distance between the sample dots.”
“In 'saccade' trials a 200 ms blank gap was introduced in order to speed up a saccade toward the first presented dot”
“The left panel represents a 'saccade' trial when an observer foveates the leftward dot and at the same time encodes the rightward dot by peripheral vision.”
“The lower panels characterize neuronal populations responses to the visual stimuli in the 'saccade' (left) and the 'fixate' (right) conditions.”
“The difference in the eccentricity-related size of the RFs taxed by the 'saccade' (solid line with circles) and 'fixate' (dashed line with asterisks) conditions, results in a divergent pattern of distance estimation bias. doi: 10.1371/journal. pone.0009918.g005”
“In the second condition the observers executed saccades that brought the sample dots onto the fovea ( 'saccade' trials).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘saccade’.
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Interesting words
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List of words (or phrases) containing eye-, -eye-, or -eye. Beginning with red-eye and eyebright.
I've since begun adding other more oblique terms that lack the string -eye-, but that...red-eye, eyebright, arguw-eye, bigeye, bird's-eye, buckeye, blarneyed, wheyey, eyebrow, eyecup, eyedropper, eyeful and 296 more...
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Twitchy
The (not always so) smoovements; scattered, oscillating, jerky, and unpredictable.
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for saccade.
ruzuzu "In the manège, a violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins suddenly and with one pull."
--Cent. Dict. Aug 14, 2012
knitandpurl "I gain the crest of the hill and there it is, falling away behind me, swags and ruches of greenery and brick, under the blue-painted ceiling of its recent conversion: New London, city of the toppermost property prices. I can see a golden drop of sunlight on the glans of the Swiss Re Tower (Lord Foster's phallus, commonly known as the Gherkin), and the inverted pool table of Battersea Power Station. I can see the Hampstead massif and the Telecom Tower. I can see my life, entire, in a single saccade."
Psychogeography by Will Self, 31 Oct 11, 2010
aequoria It is also used in music, to mean a rough and sudden movement of the violin bow that causes two or more strings to sound at once, while only bowing one I believe.
Its function is to give energy to a passage. Dec 7, 2008
whichbe Derived from a French word for twitch, saccade is a typical occurence in visual perception — the eyes fixing on one point after another in the visual field. Humans and other animals do not look at a scene in a steady way. Instead, the eyes move around, locating interesting parts of the scene and building up a mental 'map' corresponding to the scene. (From ArtLex) Jun 4, 2008