saccade
pronunciation
How to pronounce saccade in British English:
UK [sæ'kɑ:d]
How to pronounce saccade in American English:
US [sæ'kɑd]
Word Origin
- saccade (n.)
- 1705, from French saccade "a jerk," from obsolete saquer "to shake, pull," dialectal variant of Old French sachier, ultimately from Latin saccus "sack" (see sack (n.1)). Related: Saccadic.
Example
- 1. Like her like a queen sat sky high , saccade in a dream land .
- 2. But we have learned to " mask " the saccade , to fill in this brief period of blindness with perceptual information from before and after it .
- 3. But sans tachistoscope ( and most of the rooms in my house are , sadly , tachistoscope-free ) , readers must once again saccade before a new word will appear , thus regaining the reading speeds of mere mortals .
- 4. Probing the dissociation of spatial attention and saccade preparation in the temporal domain and in the underlying neural mechanisms .