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Examples of compound eye in a Sentence
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The data group is developing a compound eye in computer.
—Richard Meng, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
Though soft tissue was not preserved, spherical outlines suggest an eye on each side of the head, though whether these were compound eyes is unknown.
—Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 11 Aug. 2024
In recent decades, researchers have discovered impressive navigation skills in various birds, in seals, even in a few insects — the latter of which have low-resolution compound eyes.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
The compound eyes of an insect are structurally very different from that of a human—almost a separate category of organ altogether from the more familiar ocular arrangement of lens, cornea, iris, and retina.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Nov. 2023
Biologists now think that a sea urchin’s entire body functions as one big compound eye, where photosensitive tissue inside the exoskeleton picks up light that’s filtered by the radiating spines.
—Eliza Strickland, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2010
Building on earlier work modeling a camera on the shape of a human eye, Rogers and his team recently unveiled a camera inspired by an insect’s compound eye.
—Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2013
Put someone onstage with a mike and an audience and all those eyeballs shine back—a big compound eye, insectile and glittering.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2023
Each eye has hundreds of separate facets, each of which is a single unit of the entire compound eye.
—Thomas Cronin, University Of Maryland, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2018
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Word History
First Known Use
1836, in the meaning defined above
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“Compound eye.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/compound%20eye. Accessed 24 Oct. 2024.
Kids Definition
compound eye
noun
: an eye (as of an insect) made up of many separate visual units
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