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saccade

Flag: gbEnglishOxford New American Dictionary
saccade /səˈkäd, , səˈkɑd , saˈkäd, sæˈkɑd /
▸ noun (usually saccades) technical a rapid movement of the eye between fixation points.
– DERIVATIVES
saccadic /səˈkadik, sa-/ adjective
– ORIGIN early 18th century (in the sense ‘jerking movement’): from French, literally ‘violent pull’, from Old French saquer ‘to pull’.