saccade

English

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saccade

Wikipedia

Etymology

From French saccade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˈkɑːd/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːd

Noun

saccade (plural saccades)

1. (rare) A sudden jerking movement.
2. A rapid jerky movement of the eye (voluntary or involuntary) from one focus to another.
   • 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:

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

   • 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.

3. The act of checking a horse quickly with a single strong pull of the reins.
4. (music) The sounding of two violin strings together by using a sudden strong pressure of the bow.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

saccade (third-person singular simple present saccades, present participle saccading, simple past and past participle saccaded)

1. (of the eye, intransitive) To make a rapid jerking movement to focus elsewhere.

See also

• eyetracking
• scanpath

Anagrams

• Cascade, cascade

French

Etymology

From saquer or its Spanish cognate sacar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.kad/

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Noun

saccade f (plural saccades)

1. a jerk (jerking movement)
2. a rapid jerky movement of the eye (voluntary or involuntary) from one focus to another
3. the act of checking a horse quickly with a single strong pull of the reins

Derived terms

• ronfler par saccades

Verb

saccade

1. inflection of saccader:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “saccade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Anagrams

• accédas, cascade, cascadé