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English
Etymology
From French saccade.
Pronunciation
Noun
saccade (plural saccades)
- (rare) A sudden jerking movement.
- A rapid jerky movement of the eye (voluntary or involuntary) from one focus to another.
2000 November 21, Tim Radford, The Guardian: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.
2019, Ian McEwan, Machines Like Me, Jonathan Cape, page 23:He paused, looking at me intently, his black-flecked eyes scanning my face in quick saccades.
- The act of checking a horse quickly with a single strong pull of the reins.
- (music) The sounding of two violin strings together by using a sudden strong pressure of the bow.
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Translations
rapid jerky movement of the eye
act of checking a horse with a single pull of the reins
music: sounding of two violin strings together
Verb
saccade (third-person singular simple present saccades, present participle saccading, simple past and past participle saccaded)
- (of the eye, intransitive) To make a rapid jerking movement to focus elsewhere.
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French
Etymology
From saquer or its Spanish cognate sacar.
Pronunciation
Noun
saccade f (plural saccades)
- a jerk (jerking movement)
- a rapid jerky movement of the eye (voluntary or involuntary) from one focus to another
- the act of checking a horse quickly with a single strong pull of the reins
Derived terms
Verb
saccade
- inflection of saccader:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
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