saccade en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /səˈkɑːd/
Etymology
Borrowed from French saccade.
Meanings
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(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.)
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.
2000 November 21, Tim Radford, The Guardian:He paused, looking at me intently, his black-flecked eyes scanning my face in quick saccades.
2019, Ian McEwan, Machines Like Me, Jonathan Cape, page 23:He added the bill with a single saccade of his pulsing eyes.
1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:
- The act of checking a horse quickly with a single strong pull of the reins.
- The sounding of two violin strings together by using a sudden strong pressure of the bow.
- (rare) Any sudden jerking movement.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| saccades | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
nystagmus · glancing · fixation
Deriveds
desaccade · saccadometric · intersaccade · prosaccade · saccadically · saccadometer · antisaccade · saccadic · saccadization · macrosaccade · saccadometry · presaccade · microsaccade
Translations (25)
cmn 掃視 /扫视 (rapid jerky movement of the eye) · pt movimento sacádico (rapid jerky movement of the eye) · fi vetäisy (act of checking a horse with a single pull of the reins) · de Sakkade (rapid jerky movement of the eye) · ru бы́строе скачкообра́зное движе́ние глаз (rapid jerky movement of the eye) · nl saccade (rapid jerky movement of the eye) · hu szakkád (rapid jerky movement of the eye) · cs sakáda (rapid jerky movement of the eye) · el μεταπήδηση (rapid jerky movement of the eye) · fi nykäys (sudden jerk) · es sacada (rapid jerky movement of the eye) · es movimiento sacádico / ocular (rapid jerky movement of the eye) · pt tranco (sudden jerk) · fi nykäisy (sudden jerk) · it saccade (rapid jerky movement of the eye) · fr saccade (rapid jerky movement of the eye) · fi saccadé (music: sounding of two violin strings together) · ru сакка́да (rapid jerky movement of the eye) · fi sakkadi (rapid jerky movement of the eye) · fr saccade (act of checking a horse with a single pull of the reins) · fr saccade (sudden jerk) · ja 突然のジャーク (sudden jerk) · pt puxão (act of checking a horse with a single pull of the reins) · ru внеза́пный рыво́к (sudden jerk) · ru сакка́да (music: sounding of two violin strings together)